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How can we avoid browser fingerprinting? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Compare to cookies. I use two extensions. The first accepts all cookies to bypass cookie banners. The second deletes all non white listed cookies on closing the page. This works well for me since I seldom have more than 20 pages open, and I constantly close them.

Is there a way to avoid browser fingerprinting like this at all (with potential qol benefits) or am I extra screwed because I do things like this in addition to running Linux on a computer I built?

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[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I use LibreWolf which implements pretty tough fingerprint mitigation... but I end up disabling a lot of it because it breaks a lot of sites.

[–] dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I use LibreWolf and then turn a fair chunk of the mitigations off. It’d be nice to have all the mitigations on, but I started to tire of every site not being dark mode at night, or the time being incorrect, or the JavaScript on the site breaking, or various other things when I don’t really care about the tracking.

It was also difficult or annoying to turn these mitigations off on a site-by-site basis for known-okay or trusted sites. Maybe someone could educate me, here though.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

I use ungoogled-chromium in tandem with LibreWolf, the former for sites broken by the latter.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Why don't you use DarkReader if I may ask?