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ohso4 | 8 months ago

> Ironically, the more fine tuned and hardened your device, OS, and browser are for security and privacy, the worse your fingerprint liability becomes.

1. You could (however, I doubt the effectiveness) use something like brave which tries to randomize your fingerprint.

2. You could "blend in with the crowd" and use tor.

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Liquix|8 months ago

2. is almost immediately fingerprintable even with JS enabled. 0.00% similarity for canvas, 0.09% similarity for font list, 0.39% for "Navigator properties", 0.57% for useragent. with JS disabled (best practices for tor) it's even worse. maybe this works for windows users?

(debian, latest tor browser 14.5.3, no modifications)

ohso4|8 months ago

if there's 0.00% similarity for canvas, then I think there would be some issue with the letterboxing. You shouldn't resize your tor window from 1400x900. Tor pretends it's windows, so I don't know why it would do that for the useragent.

I've always used it inside of whonix, and when I tested it, it seemed like everything was fine.

When you disable js you need to do so by setting tor to Safest.

The font list should be spoofed by tor?

Anyway, you can fix all of that just by using whonix and setting tor to safest.