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Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta (tuta.com)
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Yes, it is.. Tor prevents against fingerprinting as well. It isn't just relay plumbing to protect your IP.. This can easily be tested on any fingerprinting site with default config of Tor demonstrating a low entropy https://blog.torproject.org/browser-fingerprinting-introduction-and-challenges-ahead/

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It's been a long while since I looked, but I remember it being a thing in tails to specifically not resize your browser window or only have it full screen to match a ton of other fingerprints.

    Plus since it was a live distro that reset on every reboot it would only have the same fonts and other data as other people using tails. Honestly, I hate that all that info is even available to browsers and web sites at all.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Letterboxing has significantly reduced threat presented by window sizing. https://support.torproject.org/glossary/letterboxing/

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't quite understand -- does this feature let you resize the window again to the size you want, and you are still sharing the same fingerprint with everyone else? Or do you still have to keep the browser window the default size to minimize your unique fingerprint?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It rounds the browser window to the nearest 100x100 window size. Using the default will likely be the biggest dataset to hide yourself in, but maximizing the window will still have some amount of obfuscation.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Tor browser is not Tor.

    This is Tor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)

    Tor browser is an additional piece of software built on top of it. Using the network(what everyone else means when they say tor) is unfortunately not enough to prevent fingerprinting.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Good point, that difference does matter. I guess other browsers like Brave use the Tor Network, and it would be misleading to suggest Brave has good anti-fingerprinting.

    What kind of fingerprint avoidance are you suggesting then that the Tor browser cannot do that makes a difference?

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