Tor is off the table for me because it’s so slow. If you can point to some test sites or documentation that supports your choice, please include!

      • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Technically, the best way to blend in is to avoid changing the behaviour much from the default. I would still advise the below settings because they do improve your security, and anti-fingerprinting against naive first-party fingerprinting scripts (all 3rd party scripts/iframes should be blocked, see below: uBlock Medium/Hard). If you need protection against advanced fingerprinting use Tor/Mullvad browser.

        uBlock:

        • Change uBlock blocking mode to Medium or Hard using the instructions on their Github wiki. Can cause site breakage on shitty websites (eg sites that import large JS libraries from remote sources). It is a substantial improvement over default, see the wiki for medium mode: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode

        • Enable filterlist Privacy>Block Outside Intrusion to LAN (Access to LAN is used to fingerprint or by threat actors during reconnaissance phase of hacking)

        • Consider enabling other filterlists included in uBlock. Try to minimize enabling extra lists from the default to avoid further fingerprinting.

        Librewolf:

        • Enable limiting of referrers under LibreWolf Preferences>Privacy>Limit cross-origin referers

        • Enable letterboxing under LibreWolf Preferences>Fingerprinting>Enable letterboxing

      • afk_strats@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        Neptr covered it better than I could’ve. I also added privacy badger though I’m not sure that does anything🤷

  • fubarx@lemmy.ml
    13·
    1 year ago

    Can’t someone come up with a browser that just randomly lies when asked about the characteristics that could be used for fingerprinting?

    Except for trusted, whitelisted sites.

    That seems like it would be a pretty good privacy enhancer.

    • JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      1 year ago

      Not sure about the whitelisting part, but I think this is what Brave already does. Randomizing fingerprinted data as opposed to blending in. Makes it hard to build a profile on.

  • madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Use this site to test your uniqueness in different browsers and VPN setups:

    https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/

    I have found that Mullvad Browser + VPN (with DAITA and Multihop ON) are better than FireFox or LibreWolf. Me and another user on here went through a little back and forth comparing some things. Just follow the comment thread from here:

    https://programming.dev/comment/15090531

    (take it with a grain of salt and DYOR, we are not experts)

    Also, I love Tor, but another reason to be careful: exit nodes can be run by anyone, including bad actors and any 3-letter agency in the world. At the very least, add a VPN layer when using Tor.

    ETA: Keep in mind that it’s not just the browser that matters. Your screen size, GPU, operating system, and several other factors also add or take away from your uniqueness in terms of browser fingerprint. Basically, they less you change in the browser, the more generic and similar to everyone else you look like. The better your OS hides things from apps (for instance, in flatpak sandboxes) the better.

    ETA2: I like creepjs for testing over EFF’s tool for one main reason. EFF tells you how unique you are, theoretically. Creepjs actually takes extra steps to make a guess at whether or not the browser is lying and trying to hide from fingerprinting. That being said, might as well use both to corroborate.

    • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      For the record you can exclude certain countries from your tor options. I am of the opinion that most people aren’t going to need to avoid government stuff, but if you do, exclude, say, 5 eyes countries if you live in one. It’ll make it quite hard for them to get the full picture

  • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.ml
    7·
    1 year ago

    Mullvad and Tor and it isn’t close. I use it to circumvent bans on social media when I say something too communist. Don’t alter it with addons in any way its perfect as it is.

    If google, reddit, facebook, etc. can’t figure out I’m circumventing them I consider that good enough.

    I also like Mullvad for most cases it has adblock by default which lowers the annoyances.

    Many websites will be pissy if you’re secure as possible. Tor and Mullvad browser make them very pissy often. Its best to have a backup browser for that and normal activities. Librewolf and Ungoogled Chromium are good choices there. More secure, but fingerprintable enough that sites don’t get pissy.

  • InvisibleRasta@lemmy.ml
    51·
    1 year ago

    Its is pretty easy to get rid of all the brave crap. You just need a policy file:

    # cat /etc/brave/policies/managed/brave_policies.json
{
    "BraveRewardsDisabled": true,
    "BraveWalletDisabled": true,
    "BraveVPNDisabled": 1,
    "BraveAIChatEnabled": true,
    "NewTabPageLocation": "https://search.brave.com/",
    "TorDisabled": false,
    "PasswordManagerEnabled": false,
    "DnsOverHttpsMode": "automatic"
}
    • pogmommy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah but i don’t want to recommend a browser to someone just for them to have some cryptocurrency, AI chatbot, and Ad reward program shoved in their face.

      And then telling them that they Can get rid of it, they just have to go make some file they don’t understand in a location on their hard drive they’ve never been to.

      Because being real, if Brave’s bloat was bundled into an antivirus software, it would rightfully raise red flags for anyone with standard computer literacy.

      • InvisibleRasta@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        well yeah I guess some decide to make revenue with this “shady” practices like brave does and others just take 400 millions from google.

        • pogmommy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          2·
          1 year ago

          I mean, I fault Mozilla for that, and a lot of other things especially in light of recent developments. But Brave still fosters user dependency on a google project, ceding browser engine market dominance toward google. I might be bale to give Brave a pass for its faults if it was making strong moves in creating a truly free and open internet, but as-is they’ve basically taken an open-source project, applied their own branding, and baked in functionality that on a better engine can be replicated with more granular control by extensions.