Re:A comprehensive study of how fingerprintable users are
by dt3ft on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @05:55PM
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Correct, sticking out is not the best approach. The only protection users of any modern browser have (while still having usable APIs) is whitelisting which sites can request information like enumerating system fonts and serving every other site fake/random information, likely through addons. Say a fingerprinting mechanism wants to enumerate your system fonts, you look up your whitelist, and if it is not on it, browser serves it the most generic list (can be gathered from fingerprinting datasets like EFFs) or finetuning it until your score is as generic as possible. Essentially, blending in with the crowd. Having such whitelists would make browsing a bad visual experience, but hey, why not do what we can to make fingerprinting as difficult as it can be. I don't mind having this as a native feature which prompts the user as they browse, sample prompt: "this site would like to access the following information about your browser, will you allow it or serve it generic, the least fingerprintable set?".
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Re:A comprehensive study of how fingerprintable users are
by eszed on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @06:40PM
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Are there add-ons which do this?
Re:A comprehensive study of how fingerprintable users are
by fn-mote on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @08:54PM
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> I don't mind having this as a native feature which prompts the user as they browse, sample prompt: "this site would like to access the following information about your browser, will you allow it or serve it generic, the least fingerprintable set?".
Once this feature becomes common, sites will fingerprint using the delay from the user to click the permission in the dialog.
Really. This whole field is the devil’s work.
Re:A comprehensive study of how fingerprintable users are
by cryptonector on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:35PM
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Basically we need something like NoScript that also covers 20-questions API identification.