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Website detects whether you have LaTeX installed [among many other things] (kuber.studio)
submitted 2 days ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ca
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[–] 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The last time I came across a fingerprinting website I wasn't able to make any noticiable dent in its ability to fingerprint me. I'm running like 6 different addons and they don't seem to have any affect on this site. I've not really been able to find projects that are successful against fingerprinting.

This website has a bunch of hows after every statement but just scrolling to the bottom without digging doesn't give a clear answer how to fix the issue.

Also why is a browser giving up specific details about my system? Like my specific CPU and GPU shouldn't need to be shareable. Is there an addon that spits out random information for every request? I used to take the time to find the most common Useragent string and set mine to that, but with browsers just giving up such details it seems worthless effort.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    It's WebGL that gives your GPU away. I disabled it on Firefox, but some sites that I use often broke down. As far as I know it's not possible to enable it per-site. If you're on Firefox, there are settings to disable giving this information.

    But the point, as the link emphasizes, is that if you don't allow such information to be read, that's also something to fingerprint you – actually even more, since it's a minority who take care of such privacy settings.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    The original idea was to gather all sys info including .extension app connections, and font capability, so that the web server and browser could tailor screen size and resolution and mime app stuff for the best web experience. Seems it's way out of hand now. Site gleans sensor info too, especially android compass, orientation sensors etc. The web page you visit could tell if you are sitting or walking etc.

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