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Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy

(andrewmarder.net)
266 points amarder | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 11:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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nilslindemann ◴[31 Aug 25 02:58 UTC] No.45079958[source]▶
Notice, if you have all these settings enabled, you can still be fingerprinted. Test here:

https://fingerprint.com/

In my tests only Tor was able to prevent that, but using Tor will give you bad rankings on payment sites like PayPal, you may even get banned there.

I learned this from here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35243355

That site is now black, surely a coincidence. Here the archive.org link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250801173508/https://www.bites...

Have a local copy.

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LeoPanthera ◴[31 Aug 25 07:49 UTC] No.45081278[source]▶
> fingerprint dot com

Is this an ad? Of all the things I was expecting to see when I clicked that, "Contact Sales" was not one of them.

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1. styanax ◴[31 Aug 25 10:31 UTC] No.45082073[source]▶
Use the EFF version, it's been around a long time: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/