Google now allows digital fingerprinting of its users
Google is allowing its advertising customers to fingerprint website visitors. Can you stop it?
After reading these reports of intensified fingerprinting I decided to block all scripts on my browser using uBlock. Can't do much regarding the IP tho
Me loving GrapheneOS intensifies.
Chromium and Webview ripped out and replaced with hardened Vanadium.
What service provider are you using with Graphene? I want to de google but it seems a wasted effort when I have FI
According to multiple users on the GrapheneOS forum it works just fine https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/7950-does-grapheneos-work-with-google-fi/2
I'm able to use Organic Maps with RH Voice with the sandboxed Google Play + Android Auto Graphene uses for my travelling/cycling/Public-transit map needs.
Mint Mobile. I'm fine with 5GB/5G:$15/month ~$185/year. 🤘😁.
I download flac songs/albums for off line use with Tidal when not streaming on WiFi.
PipePipe for YouTube/etc stuffs. 720p or background playback to save bandwith/battery isn't bad.
Thunderbird for my gmail account.
But in process of moving to Tuta.
Last I recall, Vanadium lags behind customized-Firefox in privacy features, and even more behind the Tor Browser.
Having a tool like Noscript is absolutely necessary, with today's browsers, if you want to fight fingerprinting.
All I known is DivestOS is dead as is Mull 😮.
And there's things Vanadium/web view offer that Android Firefox never can:
By default Vanadium's JIT JavaScript is blocked. Can easily turn off regular JavaScript if ya want on site settings.
The clowns just wsnt to run all these code on PC man... Why don't you let them?
Yeah I'm going with a Murena phone and /e/os installed, as they're both European.
I unfortunately can't really see how a browser could still be nice to use and properly resist fingerprinting.
The site https://amiunique.org/fingerprint tries to fingerprint your browser and lists the used attributes along with their uniqueness within their dataset. And while a browser could pretty reliably lie about its User Agent or Platform, it's often just necessary for a modern website to know, for example, what your view-port's resolution is or what kind of audio/video codecs your device supports. Going through my own results, I'd say combining these necessary data points is probably enough to identify me, even though I'm pretty privacy-conscious.
Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but I think preventing fingerprinting would need a regulatory instead of a technical solution. Unfortunately that doesn't seem very likely anytime soon.
There are extentions for Firefox that randomise most of that. They add random supported codecs for example, enough to make it believable, not enough to make it a unique combination.
It's not perfect, nothing is, but it seems to be good enough.
I’d say combining these necessary data points is probably enough to identify me
The EFF has had a couple of websites that would profile you on exactly this data, so you're completely correct in that even the basic normal required metadata is more than enough to identify you pretty well.
coveryourtracks.eff.org is where it's living now, and a quick glance shows that just using browser capabilities and such is absolutely enough to identify me.
For the lazy: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
Browser?
Lol they own Android...it's the entire os. They're fingerprinting every android phone.
I've been using browsers for a couple of decades without digital fingerprinting and it's nice enough for me. I see no need to make it nicer.
Such as?
Every browser can be fingerprinted, even Tor browser, which goes out of its way to resist fingerprinting. The only way to really avoid fingerprinting is to not use JavaScript, which is extremely limiting.
You mean it didn't already?
Perhaps this will motivate makers of web browsers to finally get serious about making fingerprinting less easy. Looking at you, Mozilla.
Getting away from Google isn't easy, but it's required.