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by slumberlust 50 days ago
Ironically, blocking trackers gives you even more uniqueness.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

2 comments

I'm not expressly trying to block trackers; I'm just trying to find a web browser that doesn't eat all my RAM, and WebKit seems to be the best engine for it, but I don't use Apple's hardware, so I end up with some pretty oddball browsers, which also send out less tracking information.

Of course, using an oddball browser in and of itself is easily trackable, but that's not what the bot-detection software is looking for, so it defaults to assuming I'm a bot.

Just fyi, the EFF tool is very minimal, there is fingerprinting methods that are durable cross-browsers, all the methods cited are weak.