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by yjftsjthsd-h 1465 days ago
It also stops sites you visit from seeing your real IP.
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Sure but with fingerprinting that's only a minor nuisance to most advertisers and sites who are tracking you.
The newest version of Firefox goes a long way to prevent this with Total Cookie Protection[0]. You’re basically left with fingerprinting as all cookies are site specific - even third party cookies. Combine that with with a DNS that does cname uncloaking like NextDNS and noscript and you’re about as good as you can get without extreme measures.

[0]: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-o...

But the cast majority of users will not care about fingerprinting by surveillance industry but about illegally Dow loading stuff. And there, VPNs are quite comfy.
I use Tor for that... it's a bit like a free VPN