Tor is off the table for me because it’s so slow. If you can point to some test sites or documentation that supports your choice, please include!

      • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Technically, the best way to blend in is to avoid changing the behaviour much from the default. I would still advise the below settings because they do improve your security, and anti-fingerprinting against naive first-party fingerprinting scripts (all 3rd party scripts/iframes should be blocked, see below: uBlock Medium/Hard). If you need protection against advanced fingerprinting use Tor/Mullvad browser.

        uBlock:

        • Change uBlock blocking mode to Medium or Hard using the instructions on their Github wiki. Can cause site breakage on shitty websites (eg sites that import large JS libraries from remote sources). It is a substantial improvement over default, see the wiki for medium mode: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode

        • Enable filterlist Privacy>Block Outside Intrusion to LAN (Access to LAN is used to fingerprint or by threat actors during reconnaissance phase of hacking)

        • Consider enabling other filterlists included in uBlock. Try to minimize enabling extra lists from the default to avoid further fingerprinting.

        Librewolf:

        • Enable limiting of referrers under LibreWolf Preferences>Privacy>Limit cross-origin referers

        • Enable letterboxing under LibreWolf Preferences>Fingerprinting>Enable letterboxing

      • afk_strats@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Neptr covered it better than I could’ve. I also added privacy badger though I’m not sure that does anything🤷

  • anon@lemmus.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I don’t think many people here use Brave Browser because of their crypto referral program, but they’ve made strides at mitigating fingerprinting. I use Brave Browser on my PC and Android and never had an issue.

  • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    You need to use or spoof a browser that is used by a lot of people, and have a screen resolution (or spoof) that is common (like 1920x1080), and set the browser to only use basic fonts like times new roman, consolas. Avoid sites that use canvas, or install a canvas blocker, which basically ignores this html element when loading the page. Mitigating fingerprinting is about blending in

  • fubarx@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Can’t someone come up with a browser that just randomly lies when asked about the characteristics that could be used for fingerprinting?

    Except for trusted, whitelisted sites.

    That seems like it would be a pretty good privacy enhancer.