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by 0xADEADBEE 2507 days ago
In the same way that ublock is a must-have extension for many people, I won't browse without cookieAutoDelete [0]. Mostly I don't bother authenticating with websites anymore, and (I think about 3 maybe? And I just reauthenticate when I want to use those) and for mobile browsing I mostly use Firefox Focus [1]. The ad networks are down to browser fingerprinting now, which will be devastatingly accurate but realistically be the next frontier in the privacy war. I habitually roll IP addresses from different VPS service providers but I'm not sure there's much more an end user can do currently. Fascinated to see how this front will develop - if things like GDPR are coming into effect, then it's only a matter of time before a gratuitous misuse of data is closed in on, though I suspect it's too late for the current generation.

[0] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

[1] - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/focus

2 comments

The browser shouldn't be providing a User Agent anyways. No matter what device I use, my user agent should have no bearing on the HTML or JS I receive.
Random user agent to throw off the fingerprinting. Decentraleyes to defeat CDN tracking.
Another fun one is viewport tracking.