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this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2026
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I recently learned about fingerprinting.
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
Interesting. I passed 2 out of 3. I have a unique headers problem. Using vanadium on GOS. Is this the place to download ironfox from ? https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/releases
I downloaded from f-droid but that works also
Yeah that's why I use what I use. I've checked that before and as long as I have JS disabled I'm at 1/1134 which is a pretty good score. Although sometimes you have to unblock sites to get them to work, so ¯\(ツ)/¯. Although at least webgl can be blocked separately.
I disabled javascript for that test and like so many other security feature today, it just prevented the page from fully loading.
Weird. It works for me without JS, although it's a little bit jank.
It's a mixed bag really. Disabling JavaScript thwarts a lot of tracking efforts. But at the same time it puts you into a very small niche of users that, combined with other data points (user agent, IP location) makes you pretty fingerprintable.
Coming from a fellow JS Disabler, mind you.