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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking.

nice

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about the fingerprinting part?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Just use CanvasBlocker, it changes your ID randomly.

https://canvasblocker.kkapsner.de/faq/

Page X claims my fingerprint is unique.

Having a unique fingerprint is fine as long as it changes. With the default settings of CanvasBlocker the fingerprint should change all the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It should be noted that canvas is only one method of fingerprinting, so just randomizing that will not be enough to prevent fingerprinting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No problem, faking instead of blocking canvas is the way to go, for example the new captcha by Cloudflare uses countless queries to check the browsers validity: https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-private-captcha-alternative/

I'm guessing that if you block it sites will either block you entirely or give you a fallback old captcha.