I really enjoy Firefox on Android as I can install a bunch of extensions and I find those extensions game changer, especially on the mobile.

One of my favorites are

  • Libredirect - literally one of my favorite ones. Redirects popular sites to privacy focused frontends, like YouTube to Invidious, etc.
  • uBlock Origin - I guess everyone knows this one
  • Privacy Badger - blocks trackers
  • Ghostery - blocks trackers, ads, scripts, etc.

What extensions do you guys use?

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    4 months ago

    Changing your user agent will not stop you being tracked. Browser fingerprinting can work with heaps of different signals, and is very difficult to block.

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      4 months ago

      It means I’m being tracked for 30 seconds. So basically useless tracking.

      Chameleon doesn’t just change the user agent. It changes a bunch of stuff that’s used to break fingerprinting. Of course you have a fingerprint, but it constantly changes so that the data they collect is so short lived that its useless to them and therefore very useful to me.

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        4 months ago

        You can try to fool it with a VPN, change country, etc but it doesn’t work. Fingerprinting is very strong these days.

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          4 months ago

          That website is marketing bullshit. It doesn’t tell you if you fingerprint “ID” is unique. If can just spit out the same fingerprint for millions of users, and it looks impressive but its totally worthless as a fingerprint.

          Try again with some service that isn’t trying to sell you their product

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            https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/index.html

            Your extension might make you MORE finger-printable. Advanced fingerprinting scripts can detect lies told by extensions.

            https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/3.3-Overrides-[To-RFP-or-Not]#-fingerprinting

            If you’re actually interested in reducing your fingerprint you should read the arkenfox guide which leverages built in features from firefox. You’ll see very quickly that if someone wants to fingerprint you it’s trivial and there’s little you can do short of TOR.

            more reading: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop-browsers/?h=fingerprint#anti-fingerprinting

            • delirious_owl
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              4 months ago

              Again, they can fingerprint me. Buy their fingerprint is useless because it constantly changes.

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                You misunderstand. They’re calculating a fingerprint that identifies you across sessions despite you changing up a bunch of values on your browser with an extension because that’s all highly detectable. They know it’s junk data they don’t use it. It actually is worse because you stop blending in with the crowd.

                You’re better off blending in then trying to look unique with every visit. The latter is a flawed concept.

                Read the arkenfox guide they get into it. Most extensions just reduce your ability to blend in to the crowd and thus should be avoided.

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                  4 months ago

                  They don’t. I’m telling you they don’t. When I disable my ad blocker, the ads I see are not relevant to me. Many times they’re not even in a language that I can speak.

                  They are not tracking me between sessions. Its obvious.

                  What you’re saying makes sense, and its why Tor does what it does. But in practice, this works too.