Can someone explain how this would prevent fingerprinting? IP, user-agent, window-size and other details can reliably identify most of the the other http sessions anyway. Blocking trackers seems as important to me.
The great thing is when you block all that, your internet is much faster.
It can't compete with the total control you get with crafting specific firewall rules but it has most of the same effect while being a lot simpler to manage.
An excellent guide: https://killtacknine.com/building-an-ubuntu-16-04-router-par...
Up for months, incredible speed, no maintenance, except to add new domains to block when they prove to be spyware. Twitter may be next on the list since it is of declining use to me.
I'll add that I'm by no means a linux whiz, but learned a lot by doing this project.
Biggest issue is explaining to guests why they can't access facebook.
Another bene is you no longer have the planned obsolescence of consumer grade equipment. I fully expect this thing to last a decade, and "firmware" is automatically updated via linux.
No surprises, the Omnia updates itself and reboots automatically (you get an email warning of you want to intervene) and everything 'just works'.