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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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Is customizing Firefox via userChrome.css bad for privacy? (lemmy.ml)

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

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Basically title...I'm wondering specifically if my chrome/userChrome.css is increasing my chances of getting fingerprinted/tracked/etc. I can't find answers on DDG or on Arkenfox's GitHub, so I'm probably good, but what do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Test out your fingerprint resistance by going to fingerprint.com there are commercial service, but they will track you on their webpage. And tell you if they can match you to a previous ID. So just visit an incognito mode. Restart your browser, visit again an incognito mode. See if you get matched

The only browser that works for me against fingerprint.com is the tor browser, and mullvad browser.

Firefox+arkenfox still gets fingerprinted for me

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

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

I trust the EFF more

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

By all means do both. But it's not about trust, it's about capabilities.

Fingerprint.com has an incentive to track you, they're demonstrating it to get sites to hire them to track you. So use them as a test to see if a commercial entity can track you. Of course cover your tracks is great, but no matter how low the score is, if the commercial fingerprint.com can track you, you're trackable.. it's just empirical

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

Using the fire button in DuckDuckGo did work.