For websites I like, I turn off uBlock Origin but leave Privacy Badger enabled.
So far to me that's been pretty good to the point I stopped using Privacy Badger (which I agree is pretty good too!).
And one step further, such public data should not be used by corporations / governments to validate (or inform much, beyond "details") the identity of someone. It's just too unreliable and can't be verified.
Maybe PGP or similar, hashed from some source biometric data, to allow multiple 'IDs' over a lifetime but 100% verifiable.
I love how it's easier to steal my identity than to intercept my encrypted web traffic.
Society really could do with a cryptographically sane method of authentication - think an PKI-type verification but in replacement for '100 points of id' / Social Security Number / Tax File Number etc.
Surely the cost of implementation wouldn't outweigh the cost of identity theft and other types of fraud which can occur due to the current flawed system?
Maybe the costs are/would be paid for by different parties, but indirectly we all pay for them through insurance premiums and taxes which cover the (preventable) financial damage anyway.
I’m not sure I can recommend Ghostery, as their business model is a bit suspicious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism
> Using websites whose addresses begin with https are also safe; they, too, encrypt their data before it’s sent to your browser (and vice versa).
Safe from your public Wi-Fi operator. Not from the company with a tracking script on the page.
> You don’t sign into Apple Maps or Safari (Apple’s web browser)
You sign into the OS, though.
> You never want to tell Facebook where you were born and your date of birth. That’s 98 percent of someone stealing your identity!
I can literally Google this information. We need to stop treating knowledge of public data like this as some sort of identity metric.