[bgro]

This is correct. To expand: things like installed extensions, window size (as well as monitor size), bandwidth and general user speed, adblockers themselves and their individual block lists, and browser are all adding to your trackability profile.

I believe you can get specific information about user's operating system (either through legitimate, direct checks or by exploiting features and using process of elimination such as X version of Chrome is only available on Mac) and of course hardware IDs.

Your IP is obviously out there as an obvious profile that can build a general picture of you in a very similar way to phone numbers. If you use a VPN, the IPs bought by that can also be profiled to narrow you down. If you’ve seen a denial message telling you to not use a VPN, this can be what’s happening.

There are also just official exploit-tier-like features constantly being added. For example, Chrome is adding the ability to see if you're idling on a page.

I've noticed some major internet sites compiling this type of information for use in, for example, permabans. Trolls have otherwise been able to use a VPN or just create a new account. This is a large driver of finding new tracking methods outside of just personalized ads.

I think a lot of this is in its relatively infant stages. I suspect it'll be 5 to 10 years before people become aware and some newsworthy incident of major abuse occurs.

[numpad0]

Is there an easy way to truly defuse various web APIs and anonymize browsers wrt that, except IP? I seem to be maintaining an almost globally unique setup for years judging by various browser privacy awareness tests, despite being a completely uninteresting person.

Should I, for example, use Docker containerized browser exclusively, or somehow use Selenium for all browsing traffic, or do something else drastic to that effect?

[bgro]

There's so many gotcha-holes that it's nearly impossible to get them all and still have a usable browser. Security updates are also going to keep you updating, and those introduce new unique identity problems.

Is there any way to be fully be anonymous online? No. The best you could do is Tor on a privacy focused operating system on a disposable computer on public wifi, but there are still loose ways to track that activity.

Or just cameras and transaction logs for buying wifi time or a coffee at that place. If you opt to not buy coffee, employees might remember you as the freeloader. If you pay in cash, you might be that only person who uses cash.

Obscurity is the best we can do right now. A virtual setup like docker using a typical setup with a VPN is the current most reasonable solution we have.

However, things like your grammar and sentence structure or even going to your profile instead of the home page before starting to browse are always going to be weak points unless you write a bunch of random "AI" to counteract that.

But then you're just the weird user doing a lot of random "AI"-like things.

[numpad0]

Yeah that will be the standard answer... However I don't have much issues with IPs, what I have problems with is browser. A disposable computer on a public Wi-Fi still gives out your computer model and potentially allows identification for your unique machine.

I'm aware that server admins are able to get WHOIS on my IP and run triangulation by latency, which I can decline by doing that throwaway-laptop-cash-paid-gloved-hand-Tor-over-free-wifi-Guy-Fawkes pretention, if need be. But my priority is to get a "clean" browser that are indistinguishable from anything.

Sucks it ain't easy in 2021.