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TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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[email protected]: What are the best ways to minimize fingerprinting on Firefox?

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[email protected]: What are the best ways to minimize fingerprinting on Firefox?

TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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I did the tests on fingerprint.com/demo/ and https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ and they both said I have a unique fingerprint, even when I enabled privacy.resistFingerprinting to True.

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  • Autonomous User@lemmy.world
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    Use Tor Browser. Don’t waste your life on micro-optimisation. You will get a lot more privacy with stuff like getting all your friends on Signal/SimpleX, etc.

    • TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.worldOP
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      You’re absolutely right micro-optimization, I found that I did too much of that in 2022 and 23 and really cut down on that this year, I found that doing so is basically never worth it. I’m not gonna do that with privacy either, I’m focusing on what actions I can take that will make big improvements to my privacy rather than tweak every little thing.

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    Tor Browser is the best way.

  • XioR112@lemmy.ml
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    Try out Librewolf it’s Firefox fork which is hardened out of the box so you don’t have to mess with settings too much.

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    Both my browser and network level dns blocker blocked the test attacker site from loading but in general there are 2 approaches to this: minimize your fingerprint data points or change them to blend in with the crowd.

    I think for the most part selectivly blocking js and cookies will do a lot for you. You can also block the canvas and limit fonts too. I’d also recommend a vpn as they can associate it with your ip too.

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    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-canvas-fingerprinting/

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/font-fingerprint-defender/

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webgl-fingerprint-defender/

    There’s a collection of similar extensions that worked for me to throw fingerprint.com off each time I opened an incognito window. Idk I’ve heard that having too many extensions can actually make the fingerprint problem worse. If this is a bad approach, I’m sure someone will correct me :D

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      One more good plugin in this line is Chameleon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chameleon-ext/

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    Use LibreWold and/or Mullvad. Done.

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