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Now about JonDoFox - as I combined it with K-Meleon I was able to test it - and it really does the job of antifingerprinting. It was tested on 2 tests mentioned by me earlier.
Aren't you recognized
here each time you do the test?
I did test last year with quite modest results, I mean cross-browser detection didn't work during my tests. Their software was already at v2.
I have tested now again. This time cross-browser detection worked almost perfectly and I'm not pleased about it.
With Opera Presto, K-Meleon 75 & 76rc I was recognized as the same user (during several tests).
With FirefoxESR 45.3 I was recognized as another user (during several tests).
With Torbrowser (using FirefoxESR 45.3) I was recognized as jet another user (during several tests).
So, tests with 5 browsers gave 3 identities.
I assume that the only way to avoid fingerprinting is to disable scripting. It's the 'benefit' of HTML5 and how some of its features get enforced on the user.
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Sure you can browse without JS all the time, without plugins, without social networks and online services (banking, shopping, booking, government puproses etc.). But it's really easier to switch internet connection off.
- I don't browse without JS all the time but most of the time. I've been doing so long before fingerprinting became an issue.
- There is a single plugin (NPSWF32.dll) I sporadically use in Opera Presto. K-Meleon and FirefoxESR are plugin-free.
- Call me old fashioned but I'm not a fan of social networks and the last thing I'd give up to their operators would be my real identity.
- I don't expect my bank to sell or exchange the hash of my fingerprint, in case they have it.
- Shopping is an issue but not for me at least. In my circle of friends there is somebody who does the shopping for all of us. Not because of fingerprinting but because of the discounts you get the more and the more often you buy.
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I have to admit that contrary to what I thought and said before,
these tests have convinced me that fingerprinting is today feasible, without circumstances and with negligible expenditures.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/09/2016 01:23PM by Yogi.