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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Which is best at mitigating browser fingerprinting? Firefox (with or without arkenfox)? Librewolf? Mullvad browser? (lemmy.ml)

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Tor is off the table for me because it's so slow. If you can point to some test sites or documentation that supports your choice, please include!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It would really stand out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

It would produce something completely different every time.

You either need to be indistinguishable from everyone else, or indistinguishable from your last page load.

Just randomly inserting fake fonts, changing your screen resolution by a few pixels, changing the variant of English between US, Canada, UK and Australia. Rendering text and images with unnoticeable random dither in the subpixel hinting. That sort of stuff.