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AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking (adnauseam.io)
submitted 1 day ago by joshchandra@midwest.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It garbles advertisers' data as a result, but you must disable uBlock Origin to run it; they can't work simultaneously. I recently moved to it and, so far, am never looking back!

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[–] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 18 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Sounds like a solvable problem

[–] viking@infosec.pub 25 points 23 hours ago

Chameleon add-on for Firefox, randomly rotates your browser, OS, screen size, timezone, device type, language, and other customizable parameters every x minutes.

I've set it to do so every 5 minutes, and to omit desktop & tablet as device types (else some websites display the respective page) and timezones (messed up 2FA).

I also disabled blackberry and windows phone from the manufacturer ID, that would have the opposite effect from obscuring me.

For the rest of it, it's working great.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 4 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Tell me how, then, because I don't know how to get around the font thing. Everybody's computer has a different set of fonts, and blocking browsers from seeing what fonts you have installed would help identify you even more.

[–] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 10 points 21 hours ago

A browser extension that limits webpages to default Windows fonts only would eliminate that factor from contributing to identification without flagging it as suspicious. A slightly more robust version could frequently cycle between multiple subsets of default Windows fonts. Say Windows comes with 100 fonts. So you could have thousands of configurations with different subsets of those.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

That one browser which everyone hates despite it being the best adblocker and anti-surveillance browser out there randomizes your fingerprint.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

which one

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 3 points 20 hours ago

"Just" remove a random 2.5% of the fonts, a different random set per request (context).