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I went on amiunique.com, and it says that I'm unique.

Lowest scores: list of fonts JS (0.01%), canvas (0.00%), media devices (0.00%), user agent (0.11%), and audio data (0.80%)

I use Linux Mint Debian edition, Librewolf browser, and Mullvad VPN. How do I become less unique?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 29 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Go with Brave. They add stuff to your fingerprint, so that is is completely irrelevant!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 49 minutes ago

Brave isn't a thrust-worthy company

[–] [email protected] 36 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Easiest answer would be: Use a common OS, with a common browser, and no add-ons.

The moment you start using something different to Windows, Android, iOS or macOS with Safari, Chrome or Firefox, you're probably already in the 5 % (just my uninformed estimate). Add-ons also increase this value drastically.

Long story short: The sad truth is, the moment you're interested in online-prviacy, you're very unique.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Is there no way to spoof that I'm using one of those without actually using them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Spoofing is a whole hell of a lot easier said than done. Content delivery networks like Akamai, Cloudflare, etc. all know exactly how different versions of different browsers present themselves, and will catch the tiniest mistake.

When a browser requests a web page it sends a series of headers, which identify both itself and the request it’s making. But virtually every browser sends a slightly different set of headers, and in different orders. So Akamai, for example can tell that you are using Chrome solely by what headers are in the request and the order they are in, even if you spoof your User-Agent string to look like Firefox.

So to successfully spoof a connection you need to decide how you want to present yourself (do I really want them to think I’m using Opera when I’m using Firefox, or do I just want to randomize things to keep them guessing). In the first case you need to be very careful to ensure your browser sends requests that exactly matches how Opera sends them. One header, or even one character out of place can be enough for these companies to recognize you’re spoofing your connection.

[–] Zikeji 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

One of the points of Libre Wolf is to make you unique, but each session should be unique.

You can find some additional setting tweaks here: https://librewolf.net/docs/settings/

The "letterboxing" feature is an additional uniqueness feature you could consider enabling.

I'm particular you could check your result in this experiment: https://fpresearch.httpjames.space/

Try it in both normal and in a private tab, then record those results, reopen Libre Wolf, and try again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Can you explain what I'm supposed to be looking for in that .space link? What's the server code and client code? Am I trying to see if the emojis and number at the bottom changes when I reopen the site?

[–] Zikeji 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

So server code is your fingerprint based on what a server is able to see. This would be your fingerprint with JS disabled, essential. Client code is the JS generated fingerprint.

For the emojis I have no idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 59 minutes ago* (last edited 31 minutes ago)

So .... Again, what is the point of this test, lol. What am i looking for? It seems like no one actually knows what the hell this test is showing, lol. Idk why it was posted if no one knows what it's showing? Do you know what I'm supposed to be looking for?

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

So, if I have the same client code and a different server code, I'm followable only as long as I have JS enabled?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

librewolf hopefully supports changing user agents. if not, uninstall it

[–] [email protected] 18 points 15 hours ago

You’re unique and everyone loves you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

Using Tor Browser with default settings is probably the least time consuming way of reducing a site's ability to uniquely identify you.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Essentially using Linux with Librewolf and various browser addons is making you unique, since there are not many similar fingerprints.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

To my knowledge Librewolf spoofs useragent to Windows by default

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

It can still tell you're on Linux via WebGL

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

It does as well as setting your locale to en-us, timezone to utc and giving random output from canvas every time.

Edit: You can also enable a fixed size for you window. More precisely the area which is visible to content (and also to javascript). https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#what-are-the-most-common-downsides-of-rfp-resist-fingerprinting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Oh I have noticed the timezone change, some websites were misbehaving because of it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

It seems to me with JavaScript it doesn't work

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

isn't mullvad browser a better choice than librewolf? (i use both)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago

yes, except for the "DNS privacy tests" they seem to be equal on privacytests.org

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Is it? I haven't heard much about mullvad browser.

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

It's basically Tor Browser without using the Tor network.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Less unique is equal to what majority of other's do.

So

  • Windows
  • Chrome (stock settings, maybe some addons like grammarly)
  • No VPN
[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

I mean...VM, run Tor as a container within the VM, and don't change any default settings. Amiright guys?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Use a computer that you bought off the shelf at a big box store. Don't add any hardware, software, fonts, or change any settings. Use MS Edge with no extensions, and clear your cookies and cache after each session.

That will make you about as generic as possible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Use MS Edge

Use Chrome. Edge is a minority browser (has a market share of ~10 %). Using chrome though gives all your data to google ( so not recommended).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I was thinking Edge becaudse that comes stock with every new system you buy; Chrome is something you have to install proactively. But yeah, you're probably right. You eith look anonymous because your system looks generic, or you have some small degree of privacy without anonymity. It's a shitty choice to make.