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by codedokode 1338 days ago
I think a HTML-only browser without support for CSS and JS might help.
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bawolff 1338 days ago
How many people do you know run html only browsers? Not having CSS would be extremely uniquely identifying.
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Semaphor 1338 days ago
Disabling JS is enough to almost perfectly fingerprint you.
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nequo 1338 days ago
The EFF has a website that illustrates why that doesn't help:

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

Like siblings are saying, they use all available information to fingerprint you.

You can cover your identity only to the extent that you can display the same characteristics to the web server as the largest group of users that have all the same characteristics. This includes whether you have JS disabled as well as your IP address, User-Agent, display resolution, etc.

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scarface74 1338 days ago
Yes and you probably “haven’t watched television in 20 years”.
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