You’re constantly leaving your fingerprint all over the internet. You leave it with the personal information you share willingly, the personal information you share unknowingly, and with the mountain of data that gets sent to each website you load. Maybe you know a thing or two about privacy and decided to pick up a VPN to keep your browsing private. Even then, you’re a lot less private than you expect.
I have never figured out how to prevent fingerprinting. They pull so much data and basically nothing works if you block it. It’s also kind of a catch 22 because if you change the information your device provides too much you become an identifiable outlier.
Maybe someone who knows more can help?
Block everything and fuck the websites that break. A piehole helps a lot.
2 schools of thought on fingerprinting.
One is Tor only and prevent anything, your internet sucks and everything else is exposed.
Second is that every browser and browser extension and IP makes a new fingerprint. So get a VPN and install vanilla Firefox, Floorp, Chromite, Brave, LibreWolf, Mullvad, and 2 others, all with uBlock Origin (not Brave). Do your business associated with your real name in FF, then rotate VPN locations and browsers based on how you feel. Add JShelter and a header blocker to turn on only when you feel like it. You now have 20 different browser fingerprints and only 1 is tied to your name.
Ahh okay, so kind of sandbox your associations
Tor browser is really the only way around it
I’ve been thinking about that, but I haven’t had the executive function to sit down and actually commit to it
Apparently Mullvad browser on desktop is good for anti-fingerprinting. I’ve been using that.