Damn… I guess the next idea is going offline for good

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    Fingerprinting isn’t allways synonym of the lack of privacy. But there are differences between fingerprinting for tracking and profiling reasons, which certainly is needed to block or to spoof, and tecnically data needed to show correctly the content of a page, eg the first public IP numbers to show the content in your lenguage, the fonts used, screen resolution, OS, browser engine…, all data which are the same for millon other users. We can block por complete the fingerprinting, but than we’ll see that half of the pages are not shown correctly or don’t even work. It’s always an commitment to set the fingerprint blocking. VPNs add an privacy layer, but dont avoid fingerprintings, used as extension can’t avoid that the browser connect first to the ISP before the VPN can create the tunnel, with which it may serve to skip country restrictions, but you are still seen by your ISP. It don’t also blocking the fingerprinting, except the IP. To stay private depends more on other measures, DNScrypt, not to use apps, search engines and services which logs/share our activity, using ad/trackerblocker… and the most important, common sense, not a tin foil hat. PEBCAK