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Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting (engineering.tamu.edu)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mullvad has a fork of Firefox they built with TOR (the organization, it does not route over TOR network). Includes NoScript and ublock origin and works by making all browsers the same ( so long as you don’t fsck with it).

You don’t have to use it with their VPN but that’s good, too.

My only complaint is it doesn’t support containers. Otherwise it’s wonderful.

https://mullvad.net/en/browser

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

+1. Mullvad browser is the best when it comes to browse the clearnet (not Tor). Also, if anyone reading this, do not compile Mullvad browser yourself, only use the official binary from the Mullvad site (or the -bin variant if you use Arch Linux AUR) since from my testing, different compiled versions of Mullvad browsers come with different fingerprints.

Using an optimized build from CachyOS and using it on CreepJS will give you a low amount of visits, same goes with the Flatpak build, but the binary from the Mullvad site gives around 2k views, which means that at least 2k people have the exact same fingerprint as you, but of course, it counts the people that have visited CreepJS to test their fingerprint. There is also fingerprint.com which seems to be wayyy more advanced.