DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillance news broke

Re:DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillan... by geomark on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @10:47AM (#9732078)

That's pretty cool (from a technical point of view, not cool from a privacy point of view). It says my particular configuration of browser plugins is unique among 1,827,392 browsers tested. Taken together with all the other unique things means I'm unique among 5,482,178 browsers tested. Shouldn't there be a way to hide most of that so you would be far less unique?

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Re:DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillan... by sangnoir on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @11:11AM (#9732307)

You could manually set your user-agent string to a more polular one (IE on Windows 7?). There are several browser extensions that allow you to set UA string manually for Chrome and Firefox.

However, an adversary can also fingerprint your OS/patch level based on packet structure[1][2] - which can't be easily changed. This will add more identifying bits.

1.http://nmap.org/book/osdetect-fingerprint-format.html

2.http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles-tutorials/intrusion_d...

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Re:DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillan... by timboslice on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @11:36AM (#9732545)

Disable javascript, use ublock/umatrix, and browse in incognito mode

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