Preventing browser fingerprinting

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/06/19/your-installed-browser-extension-may-be-used-to-fingerprint-you/

My estension fingerprints:

 

We know who you are! We're tracking you.

 

That test fails to detect ClearURLs.

 

The test is rather strange since if you disable a detected extension,it may happen that it detects another one that it previously had not detected.

 

I disabled my only other one and still fails to detect ClearURLs.

 

All those web-sites for "fingerprinting" are UNKNOWN to the majority of the Internet users!
Only more technologically-advanced users visit those sites, and, that's why all those "smart" web-sites have their records askew - "biased" estimates.

 

haha...

 

I don't get it, is it this easy to track extensions that are being used? No wonder that anti-adblockers can detect uBlock for example.

 

the detection of ad blockers is not done this way. thats why ublock includes an unbreak list.

for chromium here

 

So in Chrome exactly what is the absolute most efficient way to prevent reading what extensions you have and for that matter strongest Anti-Fingerprint add on. This is the silliest ordeal those websites do is track or try to track landing to their websites and collect as much on the visit as possible with that tracking.

 

Well, it's possible this is yet another extension that back-handedly makes you unique but someone at Mal-tips had recommended JShelter (which is discussed earlier in this thread) and I've been using this in Firefox for a few weeks now. It is guaranteed to pop a notice in gmail (what a shocking surprise) and honestly, I had to check the JS settings that it was actually blocking the fingerprint attempt and not just telling me there was an attempt thereof (geez what a stupid ext. that would be, right?).

Here's an example of an attempt notification on an EVGA ad in gmail (which I allow as I like EVGA merch ).

Spoiler: JShelter popup

 

So you're saying that JShelter will tackle this problem, and makes it less easy to expose used extensions? Then perhaps I should take another look, although I do have to say that I don't see many alerts from anti-adblockers that much lately, so uBlock can already counterattack this, so it seems.

 

Well, let's hope it does something, Rasheed.

 

JShelter isn't a magic solution against fingerprinting.
https://forum.torproject.net/t/browser-fingerprinting/1228/11

 

@Rasheed187 @plat1098 and any other user: there is no magic solution for fingerprinting. Forget it!

 

Bertazzone and nicholaasjan: thanks guys! I didn't hold much confidence in it. And yeah, no such thing as a fingerprint-free online life. But I wanted to believe, if just for a little while.

Oh well. I'm over it.

 

It's easier and more effective to tackle the companies that fingerprint you by activating strict protection in your browser. If your browser allows third party filterlists, add Kees1958 filterlist. Link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kees1958/W3C_annual_most_used_survey_blocklist/master/EU_US+most_used_ad_and_tracking_networks

 

Interesting. Thanks. @Jan Willy. I have just added this list to my ubo filters.

 

What about first party fingerprinting?

 

Well, actually the Tor browser comes rather close.
Firefox is in the process of borrowing anti-fingerprinting measures from it (part of the Tor Uplift Project):
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting

However, browsing with it isn't as convenient.

 

Obviously is tracking by fingerprinting big business, with professional players in the field. Many (in itself respectable) sites offer shelter to such tracking companies, the so-called third party trackers. You could call such sites conditional first party trackers. I see blocking third party trackers as the most practical step against fingerprinting. With the thought in mind that's hardly impossible to create a not unique fingerprint.

 

You use Brave and it seems to me from the flags you have enabled you are quite aware of limiting fingerprinting as much as possible.
JShelter in Chrome-based browsers uses roughly the same countermeasures.
As I have already pointed out elsewhere (and will not repeat).
Although it would be possible to enable some countermeasures directly.

 

I agree with this.

I take measures that are easy to use, preferably built-in ones, but can't be bothered to go to extremes or lose sleep over fingerprinting.
If you are online you are trackable unless you go to lengths most humans would not bother with if they are even aware of or could implement them, e.g. spies, spy agencies, criminal masterminds. I am definitely not 007 and doubt you are either!

 

Only 2 settings need to be changed to use JS at the top.
It does not seem to me that this means losing sleep.

 

With the Command Line Switch:

Code:

--time-zone-for-testing

added to Edge here's what you get at the Cover You Track Test:



It should be kept in mind that it is not possible to add many Command Lines Switches to "destination" (I hope in English" is called identically).
In my opinion (but I personally use few of them) it is necessary to create a batch file.
In the image below I did a little test: