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by bgro 1731 days ago
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.

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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.