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Cover Your Tracks: Test how well your browser protect you from tracking: (coveryourtracks.eff.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is an EFF project that allows you to understand how easy it is to identify and track your browser based on how it appears to websites. Anonymous data will be collected through this site.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Good find, 5 checks, 5 first visits! That's with Brave. With Vanadium and Fennec it figures me out though.

[–] varsock 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

7 visits with brave, 7 times identified as the same. I'm using the default options of a fresh brave install

how did you have such success?

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

Not sure honestly, I'm always behind a VPN, which I was changing servers, as if it were actually able to fingerprint me that wouldn't have mattered so I didn't want a false positive from making it too easy, I do run GrapheneOS so not sure if the OS is either not sending or randomizing OS info on top of that, that it would normally get. Been a while but the only thing I changed from default in Brave was changing fingerprinting to strict. For the sites I visit its still fine 95% of the time so I leave it that way. I've read from others and their browsing habits it breaks a ton of sites. So e YMMV there.

[–] varsock 1 points 1 year ago

using the settings you described ( minus the VPN ) I was not able to cloak myself over the past several days