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by CyberRabbi 1934 days ago
The best reject option is to disable cookies completely for casual browsing.
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Or destroy the whole virtual machine used for casual browsing. Except tracking includes browser fingerprint, which will not be reset even in this way.
Fingerprinting is nearly impossible with JS and cookies disabled, which is how I casually browse. And yes i spoof my user agent. IP is their best signal, and admittedly they fall back to that. I often get ads intended for my housemates.
Unless we all share the same VM image...
I assume it would be a performance disaster, but transparently running the browsing process in identical VM's would probably make fingerprinting much harder. I like the idea!
Unfortunately this is not so simple. I am using Qubes OS with disposable virtual machines and my fingerprint is always unique. Have a look at the corresponding discussion if you are interested: https://qubes-os.discourse.group/t/is-your-browser-fingerpri....
Thanks!