Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought

Security & Privacy Monitoring Tools Blogging

Cover Your Tracks Landing Page
1

Cover Your Tracks

Cover Your Tracks is a website that comes with an agile approach for the users to test the privacy of add-ons with best-in-class tools and techniques with complete online support.
Pricing:
- Open Source
The EFF has tried to get folks to pay attention to this for years. See https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ aka Panopticlick And it probably understates the problem these days, missing some of the more recent techniques.

#Security & Privacy #Tool #Software Marketplace 251 social mentions
JShelter Landing Page

2

JS

JShelter

An anti-malware Web browser extension to mitigate potential threats from JavaScript, including fingerprinting, tracking, and data collection!

I wonder if https://jshelter.org helps with that. And if it's not too slow.

#Monitoring Tools #Security & Privacy #Log Management 4 social mentions
Medium Landing Page
3

Medium

Welcome to Medium, a place to read, write, and interact with the stories that matter most to you.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Target and the model that found the pregnant girl (bad counter argument here: https://medium.com/@colin.fraser/target-didnt-figure-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did-a6be13b973a5 There are three options: 1. Prevent/Stop it: This ship sailed long ago. Not to be grim about it but pandoras box got opened. 2. Fight it: Tool up, change your print, your behavior, your place. Build focused VM's that you use per topic. Simply do a WHOLE lot less. In the grand scheme, its a lot of work for low return. Note: there are exceptions. 3. Increase Noise: The whole point of most data collection is to sell more to you. Because most people are sheep, a fairly simple model can be surprisingly accurate (over targeting is an issue). Don't be a sheep, diversify, make more noise in the system, search out side your comfort zone and change it up often.

#Blogging #Blogging Platform #CMS 2203 social mentions
Track This by Firefox Landing Page

4

Track This by Firefox

We open 100 tabs to make trackers think you're someone else

Regarding the more noise strategy, Mozilla has this fun tool: https://trackthis.link/.

#Security & Privacy #Search Engine #Web Search 24 social mentions
FingerprintJS Landing Page

5

FingerprintJS

Fraud detection and prevention using browser fingerprinting with 99.5% accuracy. Stops account sharing, payment processing fraud and gaming.

Strange, `privacy.resistFingerprinting = true` did not solve the issue for me, I'm still fingerprinted by https://fingerprint.com/. Even after clearing all cache and restarting Firefox. Adding the extensions `Canvasblocker` and `Temporariy Containers` did solve the issue though.

#Security & Privacy #Fraud Detection And Prevention #Identity Verification And Protection 51 social mentions