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I am not sure what it measures, but my privacy enhanced Firefox for browsing seems to show random numbers every time I load this URL and I always stay "unique". Another browser shows "signature stats". If I use my firefox, this won't even show.

My Privacy Plug ins:

Plug ins:

Blend in and spoof most popular properties

BP Privacy block all font and glyph detection

Browser plugs fingerprint privacy randomizer

Canvas Blocker

Clear URLs

Cockie Auto delete

Decentral eyes

NoScript

Privacy Badger

Temporary Containers

uBlockOrigin

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That's because all of the content blocking actually results in a very distinct fingerprint. If you want to be un-fingerprintable, you need to look like a lot of other people.

Unless there's a way to randomize your fingerprint. If truly random, it's probably v hard to say it's one person, two, three, etc with a huge db full of unique signatures originating from a known VPN exit.

Serve sketchy uncorrelated users a subtle challenge that is unknowingly asymmetrically unique.

Maybe like a captcha.

It doesn't matter if you're fingerprintable if your fingerprint is distinct on every visit.

It is if you're the only one doing it.

To hide a signal in noise, there must be noise.

If you're the only one doing it, sure, but if none of your information is reliable at all, then every single other "totally unique" visitor is in the same category as you. From the other end, it could be 10,000 visitors or 1, all you know is that they are unique...since they look like a different totally unique fingerprint on every visit

Most of these extensions/add-ons are useless and actually makes your fingerprint more unique.

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-don...

I thought so too but they make me so "unique" that I stay unique with every visit. With 1000 visits I may have 1000 unique fingerprints.

> Browser plugs fingerprint privacy randomizer

You're running too much stuff. Privacy badger and ublock together is a bad idea for example.

What problem does it cause?

Among other things clashing and locks and possible conflicting rules on whether or not to block or allow something

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