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TokenBoomer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• AceSLS@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  uBlock Origin and JShelter disagree.

  Additionally one could improve that further by using a VPN

  If you wanna be extreme you could also just use the Tor Browser

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  • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Except sites deliberately break themselves if they can’t harvest your data. You can’t even browse reddit on Tor anymore.

    Even merely using Fennec on my phone, I encounter shopping sites where I actually plan to spend money refuse to work because they can’t recognize “my device.” Or they refuse to sell me products where I live if I’m using a VPN. Creepy-ass behavior.

    I suppose the only way out is through, and we should simply refuse to use sites that are designed in such a way, but it feels like a losing battle.

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    • milkytoast@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      lol advance auto parts (one of the three major auto parts stores in the us) won't let u use their site with a VPN. so I just use the other two lol. like I can understand a government website blocking VPN traffic. but auto parts store?

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      • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What do you consider the other two big ones? Auto Zone and NAPA?

        Just curious because there are so many auto parts stores where I live

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    • explodicle@local106.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We’re doing our part! The fediverse needs good posts like yours to draw in new users.

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  • anonymoose@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Trying out Librewolf, I realized just how many sites (including Reddit!) use tricks like canvas fingerprinting to identify me up to 99% uniqueness. And here I thought just a VPN, uBO and no cookies would be enough!

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    • AceSLS@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s so many more tricks to identify you, check out browserleaks.com

      It’s honestly scary how easy it is to fingerprint you

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      • anonymoose@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s honestly scary how easy it is to fingerprint you

        Yeah, 💯. Of course, if we resist fingerprinting too much, we make ourselves have a unique fingerprint again 😁 I assume some of the tools you’ve mentioned randomize the fingerprint instead of just hiding it?

        Didn’t click your link,

        Haha, no worries!

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• GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To be fair, the Internet was initially a military technology.

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• Octopus1348@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reject all cookies button:

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  • snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lots of ways to track besides cookies. There are many ways you can fingerprint a user. It’s actually pretty hard to not have a unique fingerprint on the Internet.

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