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Comment by fsflover

8 hours ago

It's not just about cookies but also about fingerprinting, which is extremely hard to prevent.

No extensions that randomly change your fingerprint? I suppose that might trigger a lot of captchas.

  • Fingerprinting can be extremely sophisticated. Have a look at this test: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

    Only Tor Browser can reliably fight with it.

    • Tor Browser will not even hide the OS you're using from javascript... so if you're on Linux, you are automatically more identifiable than >97% of people.

      Also, that EFF site only checks against other people who visited the same site, so the results are skewed IMO. The other comment that links to creepjs is what I consider the best available open source tool.