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Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous (hackaday.com)

submitted 22 hours ago by BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Damn... I guess the next idea is going offline for good

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[–] primalmotion@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes and I think that's kinda dumb. It's never going to be possible to have everyone look the same. I would go the other route. Randomize everything everytime so you never leave twice the same fingerprints. That's way easier and it polutes marketers dabases, which is a double win.

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

If you are using a popular VPN I guess that's an option, but if you are going through the onion, where several nodes are being monitored, being the only guy that looks different, regardless if each time is a different different, just makes you too easy to be tracked :P