Privacy and anonymity are dead folks. Everything you do online (with the possible exception of Tor if the nodes have not been compromised) can be tracked to you.
Not only does your browser give you away but the profile of your browsing HABITS also give you away. If you visit the same 10-12 sites on a daily basis, there is enough statistical power to identify you as the person behind the browser.
Daily reminder that the next step will be death of the individual (spiritual death) as your content is filtered based on your browsing profile.
The ONLY way to fight back is by actively using disinformation to confuse their machine learning algos and/or to drop out of the digital bubble altogether.
`lost in the noise with fake searches and site requests' doesn't really work stop using the pleebnet is your only option not like anything of value is here anymore anyway we're waiting for gnunet to stabilize and become usable this will truly be what saves us
go outside user take drugs and look at trees and learn something about yourself and the world this is what they truly fear
Ian Jones
Why does my browser need to announce which fonts it can use to websites? Preventing that alone will help alleviate fingerprinting.
Adrian Flores
I do that user but I spend my other time watching my friends and family fall victim to this crap. Their personalities and belief systems are actually being warped by content filtering and it's scary as fuck. I don't want to live in a world like that and I think there are still ways to fight it.
Dylan Cox
which consumer electronics device is this thread advertising for? it's not clear to me
Grayson Rogers
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Parker Moore
>using furry fox sjw code with shitty add ons instead of just using brave with everything built into the core of the browser made by based brendan eich
kill yourself to be honest family
Gabriel Wood
but what about adblocking?
I could use hosts but they track that too now unfortunately + most advertising sites also serve normal images too in order to prevent IP blocking
Zachary Baker
Blocking privacy-invading plugins and scripts is a source of tracking itself. You're standing out; against the grain. That in and of itself is a unique identifier.
Parker Williams
Am I good if I use Disconnect on my mobile?
Adam Reyes
lel
Zachary Taylor
well shit, I have a doppelganger
Eli Gray
yes adblocking, script blocking, removal of google botnet, etc. is all built into brave
Caleb Miller
i just tried to install brave on an rpm based distro and found that they are using architecture identifiers from debian and thus the package manager fails out
if this is indicative of the rest of the project I would warn others to stay far far away
Caleb Martinez
So long as these people value capability, comfort, and convenience, over personal sovereignty, privacy, and freedom, nothing will change. If reading the relevant pages on gnu.org, stallman.org, and fsf.org isn't enough to get them to change their behavior, I doubt anything ever will be. We're lucky to have broken free, however we did.
If you want to change the world and system from within, there are four things you have to enact: All advertising must be banned in public spaces. All money and profitability must be removed from election cycles and decision making. All publicly owned machines must run free and only free software. All things payed for by the public (via grants, subsidies, R&D, etc) must be publicly owned and freely licensed.
If you do these things, which actually might be within the realm of possible, the world will slowly start to normalize into something humane. Best part about these four things is that you can begin to tackle them on the individual level yourself in your own life.
Gavin Allen
>there is enough statistical power to identify you as the person behind the browser. As the same person, but not to idetnify or locate you. There's a difference. They then try to identify one of the instances as an individual and can then assume that all the others are also you.
Owen Mitchell
>rpm based distro found your problem
Zachary Lopez
You don't even need to go full autism to win on the privacy game. Just make you do one of these:
- Don't give the sites any system information - Make your system look like the most common thing out there.
Nathaniel Moore
Nope, they can identify you based on other data you may have provided elsewhere
Chase Lopez
Mines is unique
Camden Perez
we know Evan
Cooper Hill
No u
Luis Bell
Can you do that on a browser that can run user scripts...?
Ryder Stewart
What plugin to spoof fingerprints such as resolution etc to tracking?
Luis Anderson
Apparently, Random Agent Spoofer for Firefox
Carson Harris
I have never gone to any of these sites that check for browser uniqueness because I assume they're all datamining honeypots of some sort. Am I just being silly, or am I the only smart one here who's not fucked?
Parker Carter
> Am I just being silly, or am I the only smart one here who's not fucked? You are being silly. The internet is one huge data mine.
Panopticlick literally profiles like an advertisement company might. You're not installing plugins for them. They grab what your browser gives them.
Guess what, that shit is already being grabbed and used by a ton of websites. EFF is only trying to show the techniques work, and raise awareness.
Even uMatrix should make it quite obvious how you're constantly feeding 3rd party domains and shit with information.
Xavier Harris
>Panopticlick >block javascript alongside ads
no problem
Cooper Gonzalez
Or at least make your browser not respond / fake certain JS requests that add so much data that you become completely individually identifiable.
Christopher Hall
Blame web “dev” cancer
Lucas Murphy
1. The EFF is on your side 2. They have nothing to gain from you because the data they collect and show to you is information that literally every single website has access to.
I'm not sure what kind of advanced tinfoil hattery it would need to be fearful of a service literally designed to help you become more privacy on the internet. But whatever, man
Ayden Reyes
How do you block the CSS-based screen size / color depth tests?
Those always bust me because I am the only person with a 4096x2160x30 display
Blake Howard
what you have to do is run windowed in a default size
torbrowser warns you as much ("do not fullscreen")
My window size gave me a unique fingerprint too because stupid shitty tiling.
Jason Peterson
Random Agent Spoofer here too, I think.
Bentley Rodriguez
I got the same thing.
Fresh install of Pale Meme on lubuntu
Ian Howard
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Kayden Kelly
if they know about fingerprinting why doesn't someone make standard settings that we can all set them to
Chase Baker
Because once you do that, some websites break. Among other things.
And unfortunately most browsers aren't like "privacy is more important, let the people that are too lazy / dumb to use a menu go".
Christian Lewis
corruption, the NSA has been weakening standards by putting agents into commitees for years.
The NSA probably doesn't need this very much, so I kinda doubt it can be just pinned on them.
Daniel Russell
I'm dumb and didn't read the link and didn't realize it was the EFF. I'm using Icecat-38.8 with uBlock Origin, uMatrix, HTTPS Everywhere, and Self-Destructing Cookies. Some of the things it's collecting about me are wrong because these things spoof them, but it still says I'm unique. What more can I do?
Ethan Lee
Random Agent Spoofer.
Make sure you check the detailed results. If they think you are unique because of random nonsense your browser reports to every site differently, that's not really something anyone can track.
Justin Rodriguez
Try this one: www.ip-check.info It's far more rigorous.
Brandon Edwards
if uMatrix already does that am I good?
Josiah Johnson
I don't think it spoofs the font list and stuff like that just yet...?
But yea, if it did spoof most things / everything every test in this thread thought of, you should be fairly hard to track by advertisment companies and the like.
They possibly aren't using anything more clever to still track you.
David Hernandez
isn't there some spoofing agent plugin that makes you seem like a basic bitch?
although I guess that can be tested for too.
Gavin Moore
>The EFF is on your side You shouldn't voluntarily surrender your data to anyone, you moron. Especially to those who say they are your friends.
Brody Allen
> although I guess that can be tested for too. They *could* test for that, but do what? Prohibit being a basic bitch?
Even if you used the same laptop at home and at work, the connection between your activities at home and at work might be completely lost.
Chances involving in stalking you and only you for a perfect profile of who you are and what you do become increasingly bad the more you aren't someone that can be kept apart from the noise of thousands or even millions of other people also doing stuff.
Nolan Parker
> You shouldn't voluntarily surrender your data to anyone That is not the point of that test. You obviously do it with all your "defenses" enabled.
They don't get privileged access to you data. EFF gets the same information to work from as any retarded website you visit on the 'net gets. You merely just learn what they learned in this case rather than being secretly profiled by 12 ad companies, 80 foreign governments pulling data also from ad companies, and the website itself.
Nolan Murphy
¿?
Angel Richardson
it's about attack surface etc. but i agree that some of it is more useful for ad agencies than the NSA
Cameron Hall
Post a screenshot?
Gavin Edwards
>spectularly missing the point 1. The EFF is not asking for your personal data 2. The EFF is not collecting your personal data
Like I said, they're on your side.
Colton Garcia
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Ian Clark
>Hash of canvas fingerprint >Hash of WebGL fingerprint So get rid of those? Tip: Disable WebGL and canvas, or even better: disable javascript
Nicholas Green
if I disable scripts the site can't even do its thing