/tech/ - Soyence and Technology

Take this with a grain of salt because I could be wrong. But I'm pretty sure they aren't working out which extensions you have from your user agent. It's because some extensions change the page in a detectable way. Which can be tracked. That also means that if the extension you have doesn't do something the site can detect, it shouldn't actually mess with your browser fingerprint. The safer option is to keep extensions to a minimum though

>>42794
I had a bunch of extensions, but deleted them and just used ublock origin filters (since most of them were just blocking different site elements) but I guess it might not actually prevent fingerprinting.

>>42797
generally speaking ublock will cover blocking just about everything you want to block, while keeping your fingerprint pretty minimal, if you're only installing that, or just that and one or two other things that don't increase your fingerprint. the real benifit you would get is installing ublock, within that disabling javascript globally. and putting fairly strict block rules. Then go to the sites you regularly visit that will need javascript, or other things that were blocked, and unblock things until those work. That is what I would consider best practices (without being insanely inconvenient since after you are done with the process you should be good). It still does take a bit of work though.

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If you want to not be fingerprinted, install windows 11 in a VM and browse the internet from chrome in 1080p resolution without any extensions. You can block ads with pihole or something like that.

>>42806
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>>42791 (OP)
just use the Libredirect extension and use a frontend for every single website and resistfingerprinting in about:config

and only use mullvad vpn or airvpn on your main browser

>>42794
dis also any of those extensions could be compromised