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Cover Your Tracks: Test how well your browser protect you from tracking: (coveryourtracks.eff.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is an EFF project that allows you to understand how easy it is to identify and track your browser based on how it appears to websites. Anonymous data will be collected through this site.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What about the fingerprinting part?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Just use CanvasBlocker, it changes your ID randomly.

https://canvasblocker.kkapsner.de/faq/

Page X claims my fingerprint is unique.

Having a unique fingerprint is fine as long as it changes. With the default settings of CanvasBlocker the fingerprint should change all the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It should be noted that canvas is only one method of fingerprinting, so just randomizing that will not be enough to prevent fingerprinting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

No problem, faking instead of blocking canvas is the way to go, for example the new captcha by Cloudflare uses countless queries to check the browsers validity: https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-private-captcha-alternative/

I'm guessing that if you block it sites will either block you entirely or give you a fallback old captcha.