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https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ Wanted to share this awesome tool to test your browser, also please do share your results in the comments.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking.
Is your browser: Blocking tracking ads? Yes Blocking invisible trackers? Yes Protecting you from fingerprinting? Your browser has a unique fingerprint

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 178,285 tested in the past 45 days.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 17.44 bits of identifying information.

Firefox/Windows 11/Privacy Badger/uBlock Origin

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

very hard to circumvate fingerprinting, I use noscript for that

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

What are your settings for noscript? This test won't complete after installing it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You have to enable the scripts for the page and leave everything else blocked

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's a bit of manual work. Trial and error with just first party scripts, then add specific capabilities to scripts one-by-one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Best I get is with canvasblocker--without NoScript. At this point I'm not sure this screenshot is not photoshopped.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We could ask the OP for their NoScript settings.

@[email protected]

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

in the noscriot settings default is set to "noscript and others" rest turned off, there is also ublock origin set to block 3rd party scripts, firefox fingerprinting settings are turned on

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What are your NoScript settings for this page?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

everything is on default so every sibgle page it loads allows "noscript" and "others" as indicated by the noscript settings

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

firefoxes regular fingerprinting protection has canvas blocking try turning that on from about:config. no scrip allows only "noscript" and "others" to loaf by defsult and ublock origin is blocking 3rd psrty javascript.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Task failed successfully

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I have only "no script" and "others" enabled by default

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

LOL

https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/

you don't even need javascript to fingerprint anymore. html and css works too

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

that needs javascript to work. I largely block javascript on my browser.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I got almost the exact same result using DDG on a cheap android phone. Within .1 bits of identifying info.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I get 17.45 on an iPad Pro. This is with all extensions disabled and my adblocker off. They say I am unique in the past 45 days. Looking through the info I don’t see how this works. Could it be that no one else has tested with an iPad Pro? It’s not like the hardware in this model is different from a similar one. You really just cannot meddle with it. It’s a fairly locked down ecosystem.

If I took an iPad, reset it and ran the test. Then reset it and ran the test again, would both be unique?