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I'm considering it a good thing at this point that I'm getting captcha-walled with increasing frequency. It means that my setup and behavior looks more like the billions of anonymous bots flooding the web rather than a lucrative mark.

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Same, but to access so many websites now, you have to turn on JS (i.e. turn on fingerprinting). Even for sites where this isn't on purpose, it's true because they're behind Cloudflare.

Did you have a look at this test? https://www.eff.org/pages/cover-your-tracks

You should share details on your setup.

(Different commenter, same experience)

Firefox, VPN, UBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and UMatrix plugin to block cookies and javascript by default. (You can easily whitelist first and/or third-party cookies and/or JS on sites of your choice.)

Actually, usually librewolf instead of firefox, but not a big difference I suspect.

When I test with Librewolf (anti-fingerprinting enabled) and uBlock Origin as only addon installed, it manages to retain my fingerprint across sessions. Perhaps it's my static IP.

+1 for librewolf

Nothing special just Firefox and the normal privacy plugins.

It also might be (as it proved in my case) that your address block (including the whole neighborhood from an ISP perspective) includes a compromised device. I discovered one of my neighbors has a compromised device that's sending a couple million spam emails per month, and it tainted the reputation of the entire network address block.

Well it happens on both my laptop and my phone, both of which are firefox with a lot of the fingerprinting stuff like useragent knocked out, as well as adblock, etc.

I use noscript, ublock origin, and container tabs to isolate my personal email and banking, and often get accused of being a robot. (I'm a real boy!)

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