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Use browser plug ins

* ublock origin

* no script

* cookie auto delete plug in, deletes cookies if tab is closed

* (I use also I don't care about cookies for the EU cookies clusterfuck)

* Canvas blocker

* Privacy badger

* Glyph detection blocker

* Decentral eyes

* Privacy settings

* Privacy-Oriented Origin Policy

* WebRTC leak protection

* https everywhere

* I have a browser spoofing plug-in too but don't think it works so well.

Use VPN

use different browsers for different purposes.

use startpage.com instead of google

Here, try your luck:

https://amiunique.org/

https://panopticlick.eff.org

Does not work so well. Instead of preventing canvas, fonts, browser ID etc., the plug-ins should randomize it.

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You may want to re-evaluate your use of startpage.com: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577

It seems really concerning that Startpage is still recommended on privacytools.io. Instead the forum post discussing the delisting is hung up on getting a statement from the new CEO and giving them a chance, which seems insane to me. Either being owned by an advertising company is a problem for all privacy-focused services or it isn’t a problem for any of them. In which case they might as well redo the entire site. I don’t see why this CEOs word would be worth any more than nothing nor why he should be treated any differently from the owners or CEOs of other questionable businesses/services/addons/programs/etc.

This questionable judgment on their part seriously puts their reputation at risk in my eyes.

Are you aware of any way to bundle setting for Firefox (or whatever) that include these kinds of changes?

I know you can export the about:config and share that, but I have always wanted a kind of ansible for setting up a browser with plugins and other changes for my personal use.

Additionally, If I could tell my friends and family: Hey just use my Firefox Playbook and feel safe on the internet, thereby reducing the cognitive load of figuring out how to do that, I'd probably have a lot more success helping curious but busy people take control of their privacy.

You don't want your family to use my setup. I breaks many things.

A person not in IT is probably just fine if you install ublock Origin.

Or you would have to train your family to use different browsers for different things and you want to have at least one "vanilla" browser on your system. Just recently my US CC website stopped working with my browser. For such things you want to have one major browser without any plug ins.

e.g.

1. Google Chrome (Vanilla, no plug ins). Used when needed (recently to pay my CC). 2. Chromium: Facebook, Gmail 3. Firefox: buying tickets etc. 3. Vivali Browsing the internet

Again my setup does not work so well against fingerprinting. My plug-in combination is so unique that I can be tracked via my plug ins.

A nice benefit to that is it may make fingerprinting harder if many people are using the same configuration.

Relevant discussion from not that long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783339

Any advice on how to prevent mobile browser fingerprinting on Android and iOS without jailbreak or root permissions?

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