We need better laws against this.
These services like incogni, deleteme, aura, etc… shouldn’t even exist. It’s just another perpetual subscription to solve a symptom of a problem that is not being addressed by anyone.
These services don’t address the root issue that this data shouldn’t be collected and sold in the first place. And governments buying it to bypass the warrant process is unconstitutional.
Quite frankly this is all ridiculous and I find it baffling that people accept this.
I hate that you can pay for a service and you continue to be milked for more value.
The governments of the world and corporations have a vested interest in this practise to continue.
This bill will die and both sides will see that it dies.
It is every citizens duty to take part in democracy.
Just kicking back saying “it is what it is” got us into this mess.
In the US, they have ignored the constitution since the Washington administration.
Searched for some more recent info about fingerprinting resistance, and turns out Firefox has a new privacy.resistFingerprinting.pbmode setting under about:config.
It turns on the strictest fingerprinting resistance configuration for private browsing mode (hence the “pbmode”), but doesn’t seem to go far enough to make me less unique than one in five million.
Twitter will call you out using strict mode:
Unless we are stock Chrome on Windows, we are terribly unique.
None of these browsers go far enough.
It all sucks. It’s a very difficult problem to solve.
I was pleasantly surprised at myself last month when I inadvertently followed a link while reading a topic I was very interested in. Turns out the mere sight of seeing Twitter/X trigger a sub-second reflex that closed the tab immediately. I want to know more, but I will always pass on Twitter/X. 
EDIT: oops. I overwrote my previous post.
Yes. Agreed. I have been thinking this for some time.
This could be a good reference project for something like this.
Trying to find another link too, can’t remember… darn brain.
Then copy paste the link into an alt front end such as nitter or xcancel (or try a browser extension that converts it for you). Then you can at least still get the information without being subjected directly to their abuse and enshittification.
I’m very tempted to spend my expiring Cursor credits on something now. 
It never ends…:
Hmm, sizeof.cat is down. I wanted to reference this again.
Sorry.
This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.
Wut..?
ffs… does anyone have a copy of this?
Clearly I am a fool for not making local archives of every single website I visit… I have the SingleFile extension which is very good, but did not make a copy of this one… darn.
edit:
aha! wayback failed me but looks like it is on archive.today. I will be saving these locally for sure
Love this quote
Not all network connections should be considered spyware or telemetry, some are legitimate (for example, Windows Update), though personally I consider all default connections as spyware/telemetry, unless I press a big red button that says “Connect to Microsoft”.
I firewall anything that says Microsoft or Windows update in the DMZ. Microslop
FYI - LibreWolf is finally in arch Extra. no longer need to get from AUR
Crosslinking this thread here, because I hadn’t read this paper till now: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367585237_Browser-Based_CPU_Fingerprinting
but it does mention:
Some benchmarks profiling multi-threaded scenarios re-quire the Web Worker API. Disabling this feature would fully mitigate the core benchmark and associated classifications
And yet another reason to this question:
Perhaps it is “too far” to you, yet “not far enough” for others.
Unless your either rich, or powerful (generally the rich are the ones in power anyways) .
Just look at current events, 2 arrests in the shiny hunters case, 0 arrests for the child traffickers involved with a certain private island …
I’ve kinda given up on fingerprinting. The more stuff you tweak to combat it the more unique your config becomes
There days I’m mostly doing ublock and ADG and leaving it at that
My thoughts on things is throw out random configs. Things along the lines of stuff like this. Chameleon – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US) Something better than this would be nice.
Practice Browser isolation. Have browser for different use cases. In the past I have found that the tighter I configure Firefox the more my browser stands out. So opting for throw all wrong crap at them to fingerprint might be an approach. More tools are needed to come up good system.
I think that throwing to much crap at the wall will also stick out. Trying to blend in and still throw crap is the end goal.
