Re:You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
by chimeracoder on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @11:04PM
(#4908558)
> So maybe the solution here is coming up with a 'secure browse' profile that every browser reports the same fake fingerprint.
There already is: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
This also has the advantage that no other solution has: it completely hides your location as well, whereas even with a "standard" browser, your IP address + time zone alone can do a lot to identify you.
Re:You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
by zalew on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @11:27PM
(#4908643)
even the tor bundle requires some additional steps for increased privacy http://dpaste.org/hAyZG/
Re:You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
by russgray on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @06:21AM
(#4909560)
Many of those options are now set by default in Tor Browser.
Re:You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
by zalew on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @06:56AM
(#4909645)
Last time I checked they were not.
Re:You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @10:09AM
(#4910365)
I just checked now - many are but certainly not all. There are a couple of things that probably affect practicality a lot, like referer sending.
Re:You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
by sliverstorm on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @10:28PM
(#4908454)
Well, some pieces of information, it can be useful to provide to the server. But, yes, standardizing or even dropping certain fields seems like a nice first step.
"Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 857,908 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours."
As it doesn't allow for plugins, my fingerprint should (cookies aside) match that of any other <popular device> user.
So maybe the solution here is coming up with a 'secure browse' profile that every browser reports the same fake fingerprint.
Security in numbers.