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Tor Browser is really good at this. It was designed for the purpose of limiting tracking, both by IP and fingerprinting. Every user that downloads and runs Tor Browser looks perfectly identical to any website they visit, and hitting the button to reset your identity truly does that. Downside is it's really slow compared to just using your network directly, but that's the price you have to pay for privacy atm.

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One thing that is important in keeping this "identical" browser appearance to potential trackers is not changing the size of the browser window once you open Tor.

Hasn't this largely been fixed? I remember reading about how the tor browser would fake its window size to be from a predefined set that's somewhat near your current window size

That's correct, if you resize the window you can see the page area switching between the predefined sizes.

Yeah, it does a pretty good job at letterboxing. It doesn't make Tor perfect, even if you wipe your identity, if you have a less common predefined size and go back to the same URL, they can probably track you as the same user, especially if combined with things like canvas fingerprinting, but if you set Tor to the safest setting, which disables JavaScript, you are completely safe.

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