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800XL , in How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas

Figure out where the modem is and Farraday Cage it.

LazerDickMcCheese ,

That's what I've been thinking too

deleted ,

Then it’ll lock 70% of features and nag and spam you every time you start the car with warnings and notifications.

I bought a samsung tv recently and I was shocked that only the antenna tv wotks without a samsung account.

refalo ,

So a cabin in the woods without internet can't have a playstation?

refalo ,

That quite often requires tearing the dash apart and removing the radio, sometimes even disassembly of it. Also voids your warranty.

bigmclargehuge , in How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas
@bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world avatar

2015 is about the absolute latest year I'll shop for for numerous reasons. Apparently privacy is a new one for that list.

Blaster_M , in Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) | Mullvad VPN

This will, of course, increase your data usage if you are using this on metered networks.

rikudou , in Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) | Mullvad VPN

I mean, can't the AI be trained to recognize the real traffic from the fake one? Not flawlessly, for sure, but enough to find a pattern.

furzegulo , in what VPN are you using ?

mullvad has been working very well for me on linux, android and windows, and i've no reason to try out anything other.

deleted ,

Me too.

However, I use it mainly with my arr setup to torrent stuff and after they remove port forwarding feature, I’m looking for a solid provider that supports port forwarding.

theskyisfalling ,

I moved from Mullvad to AirVPN when they made this change and have been pretty happy with it so far tbh, maybe check them out? :)

hellfire103 , in what VPN are you using ?
@hellfire103@lemmy.ca avatar

I use ProtonVPN, since it's free, but I would absolutely use Mullvad if I was going to pay.

WeLoveCastingSpellz , in what VPN are you using ?

proton 💜

Woozythebear , in what VPN are you using ?

SurfShark.

I'm not a VPN expert but I can pirate all day long and not get letters from my ISP.

Maybe it's not good for other things you may need a VPN for but for trying to access region locked content or pirating, it seems to work just fine for those needs.

pfaca , in EFF "cover your tracks" browser privacy test
@pfaca@lemm.ee avatar

I don't know if you posted a link to the actual site (I'm not seeing one, just a screenshot), https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

WeLoveCastingSpellz OP ,

ye that's the one, I forgot to put the url in the post

aeronmelon , in EFF "cover your tracks" browser privacy test

You should include a hyperlink to the actual site in your post.

WeLoveCastingSpellz OP ,

I forgot sorry! here it is: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

TragicNotCute , in EFF "cover your tracks" browser privacy test
@TragicNotCute@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks for posting this! I installed privacy badger and modified my user agent as a result of the test. Very helpful insight that I didn’t have before.

WeLoveCastingSpellz OP ,

privacy badger is outdated though, not needed anymore if you have ublock origin

TragicNotCute ,
@TragicNotCute@lemmy.world avatar

I have ublock origin and failed the tracker checks without privacy badger.

WeLoveCastingSpellz OP ,

hm, mine is on medium mode so it blocks 3rd party scripts, maybe it's that? do whatever works for you

downpunxx , (edited ) in EFF "cover your tracks" browser privacy test
@downpunxx@fedia.io avatar

Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking.
Is your browser:
Blocking tracking ads? Yes
Blocking invisible trackers? Yes
Protecting you from fingerprinting? Your browser has a unique fingerprint

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 178,285 tested in the past 45 days.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 17.44 bits of identifying information.

Firefox/Windows 11/Privacy Badger/uBlock Origin

WeLoveCastingSpellz OP ,

very hard to circumvate fingerprinting, I use noscript for that

swayevenly ,

What are your settings for noscript? This test won't complete after installing it.

MigratingtoLemmy ,

You have to enable the scripts for the page and leave everything else blocked

swayevenly ,

Doesn't work.

MigratingtoLemmy ,

It's a bit of manual work. Trial and error with just first party scripts, then add specific capabilities to scripts one-by-one

swayevenly ,

Best I get is with canvasblocker--without NoScript. At this point I'm not sure this screenshot is not photoshopped.

MigratingtoLemmy ,

We could ask the OP for their NoScript settings.

@WeLoveCastingSpellz

WeLoveCastingSpellz OP ,

in the noscriot settings default is set to "noscript and others" rest turned off, there is also ublock origin set to block 3rd party scripts, firefox fingerprinting settings are turned on

MigratingtoLemmy ,

What are your NoScript settings for this page?

WeLoveCastingSpellz OP ,

everything is on default so every sibgle page it loads allows "noscript" and "others" as indicated by the noscript settings

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Thanks!

WeLoveCastingSpellz OP ,

firefoxes regular fingerprinting protection has canvas blocking try turning that on from about:config. no scrip allows only "noscript" and "others" to loaf by defsult and ublock origin is blocking 3rd psrty javascript.

WeLoveCastingSpellz OP ,

I have only "no script" and "others" enabled by default

DarkDarkHouse ,
@DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

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Cryophilia ,

Just use brave

Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking.

IS YOUR BROWSER:

Blocking tracking ads? Yes

Blocking invisible trackers? Yes

Protecting you from fingerprinting? ◕ your browser has a randomized fingerprint

WeLoveCastingSpellz OP ,

fuck brave

Cryophilia ,

I never got all the Brave hate. Just don't do the crypto stuff.

WeLoveCastingSpellz OP ,

that in my opinion shouldn't be in the browser in the first place, plus I don't wanna support the chromium monopoly and instead wanna use a gecko based browser.

Cryophilia ,

It's opt-in

MigratingtoLemmy ,

For me, I just dislike the feature bloat. I wonder if somebody has a brave fork, since brave has some of the best fingerprinting protection amongst all browsers

refalo ,

LOL

https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/

you don't even need javascript to fingerprint anymore. html and css works too

WeLoveCastingSpellz OP ,

that needs javascript to work. I largely block javascript on my browser.

Hegar ,
@Hegar@kbin.social avatar

I got almost the exact same result using DDG on a cheap android phone. Within .1 bits of identifying info.

panicnow ,

I get 17.45 on an iPad Pro. This is with all extensions disabled and my adblocker off. They say I am unique in the past 45 days. Looking through the info I don’t see how this works. Could it be that no one else has tested with an iPad Pro? It’s not like the hardware in this model is different from a similar one. You really just cannot meddle with it. It’s a fairly locked down ecosystem.

If I took an iPad, reset it and ran the test. Then reset it and ran the test again, would both be unique?

Syl , in EFF "cover your tracks" browser privacy test
@Syl@jlai.lu avatar

how did you reduce your fingerprinting ?

Artyom ,

In my experience, you have thee choices. You can use NoScript and avoid enabling domains required for fingerprinting, you can turn on privacy.resistFingerprinting in about:config, or instead of focusing on not being fingerprinted, focus on guaranteeing your fingerprint will keep changing.

Cryophilia ,

Funny thing is, I had to enable scripts on that website in order for the test to work lol

WeLoveCastingSpellz OP ,

you can o all 3 too >:3

astreus ,

I turned privacy.resistFingerprinting to true and now get an absolutely unique fingerprint on the tool

Artyom , (edited )

That might be because it'll be new every time.

Edit: I haven't done my homework about how good this post's test is, but I use amiunique.org to compare browser settings.

PumaStoleMyBluff ,

Be aware that any sites using HTML5 Canvas will probably be broken now. It breaks some other niche things too that may not be obviously related, so just keep that in mind if any site starts acting up.

WeLoveCastingSpellz OP ,

blocking javascript using noscript

garfaagel ,
@garfaagel@sh.itjust.works avatar

I use an addon called Chameleon that creates a random user agent that changes periodically.

Smokeless7048 ,

similar, i used Random User Agent, it shows that i have a unique finger print... but the user agent of that fingerprint is not 'my' user agent, so in 30 mintutes i would appear as a different fingerprint

brbposting , (edited ) in EFF "cover your tracks" browser privacy test

Wow nice. Any opinions on how these fingerprinting evaluators compare?

CreepJS:
https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs

EFF’s Cover Your Tracks:
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org

Am I Unique?:
https://amiunique.org

Sad a pretty stock iPhone that’s blocking via some filterlists and using iCloud Private Relay (a “VPN”) is so detectable! Should be so many browsers appearing similar but there’s always this & that that mean I’m unique.

-my comment a month back & some discussion

lemann ,

I'm completely unique, both AmIUnique and the CreepJS test highlighted my installed fonts and two webcams (one of them is actually a virtual redirect for my primary webcam, since the drivers are DirectShow-based)

Would be interesting to see how my linux laptop performs, tbf it might be unique too considering it's a mbp 2012. I remember running into at least one website I visited on it showing much higher prices compared to when I revisited the same website later from my windows desktop...

dependencyinjection , in EFF "cover your tracks" browser privacy test

Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 7748.22 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 12.92 bits of identifying information.

Using Arc on iOS.

Blocking tracking ads? Yes
Blocking invisible trackers? Yes
Protecting you from [fingerprinting] Partial protection
WeLoveCastingSpellz OP ,

pretty typical, not too bad if you aren't protecting your fingerprint with the noscript addon

dependencyinjection ,

Is that available on iOS?

I realise my options are limited on this platform.

WeLoveCastingSpellz OP ,

noscript also exists on chromium, so if there a browser that supports addons on IOS it most prolly will have it. But I wouldn't worry about it too much. I don't have noscript installed on my phone either for convenience sake

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