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Without blacklisting a bunch of 3rd party scripts using a different browser or even device would be useless. Once you log in to your account, this new browser/device is automatically linked to all your old browsers/devices, so there is no difference.

From 2015: https://adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/when-evaluating...

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Qubes OS pretty much solves this problem!

https://www.qubes-os.org/

...or "how to immediately get flagged as a paranoid weirdo nerd and die without credit FOREVER ALONE"

A little like the paradox that by using more secure browsers and configurations, any browser fingerprinting algorithm will single you out reliably from all the other sheep.

it's like the old adage that "the NSA really love people using PGP email, as it immediately reveals who's worth watching"

Connecting from a Linux based VM will get you flagged? How about one VM used exclusively to connect to banking sites with cookies remaining?

Not sure if you are familiar with how it works, or how using a VM OS works. It's a bare metal hypervisor with VM's to be used at will.

The criticism above is wholly unwarranted. You are basically running a collection of VM's. You can create, clone, and dispose of operating systems at will.

Gotta laugh at people criticizing without knowing...Unless connecting from Linux throws major flags, you are good.

It's a much safer OS than Windows, standalone linux, on any given day. Anything touching the web can be disposed and replaced at will. Along with the network management VM.

I use a different computer for every single website.

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