• Zarxrax@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Would it be possible for a browser or extension to just provide false metadata in order to subvert this type of fingerprinting?

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      No. Anything that executes Javascript will be fingerprinted.

      That being said it depends who are you fighting. For common commercial tools like Cloudflare fingerprinter it might work to some extent but if you want to safeguard against more sophisticated fingerprinting then TOR and no JS is the only way to combat this.

      The issue is that browsers are so incredibly complex that it’s impossible to patch everything and you’ll just end up getting infinite captchas and break your browsing experience.

    • kipo@lemm.ee
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      4 days ago

      Yes. There is a firefox extension called Chameleon that does this.

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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      4 days ago

      Others have mentioned what Firefox/etc do, but another option is a PiHole. If you can’t look up the IP for an advertiser URL, you don’t load the JavaScript to begin with.