Which is best at mitigating browser fingerprinting? Firefox (with or without arkenfox)? Librewolf? Mullvad browser?

[zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml]

Tor is off the table for me because it's so slow. If you can point to some test sites or documentation that supports your choice, please include!

[lemmchen@feddit.org]

Default settings or what are we supposed to compare here?

[zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml]

Well, hmmm. How bout out of the box/to start with?

[kobra@lemm.ee]

Yeah default settings, mullvad is probably hard to beat if tor is off the table.

[anon@lemmus.org]

I don't think many people here use Brave Browser because of their crypto referral program, but they've made strides at mitigating fingerprinting. I use Brave Browser on my PC and Android and never had an issue.

[aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I think You're right but get ready cause here comes the downvotes

[tuxenthusiast@sopuli.xyz]

Idk what the fuss is about. Brave is a decent option with all the crypto stuff turned off.

[afk_strats@lemmy.world]

I've tested this on Debian oand roughly:

Mullvad (default): A+
Librewolf (+setup): B
Librewolf (default): C
Firefox (default): D
Chromium (default): F

Try out https://coveryourtracks.eff.org

[brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml]

This has been my experience as well. What tweaks are you making to default librewolf?

[kat@orbi.camp]

Having to spend souch time tweaking it on a fresy install. Annoying af. I still use it cuz nothing else meets all my needs.

[Guest]

Ironfox on Android is great.

[tuxenthusiast@sopuli.xyz]

It takes like 1 minute. How often do you reset your system?

[neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

For me, no matter how good their browser is, I ain't going to use it. If someone forks it to remove the BAT crypto nonesense id consider using it. I've been tempted to compile chromium from source and just add brave-core content/fingerprint blocking. Ideally, any fork would maintain the same general fingerprint with brave.

For now, Cromite is the way to go in-terms of hardened Chromium with built-in adblocking and without Google nonesense. The only downside is their choice to use Adblock Plus engine, but this is for the technical reason that engine is inferior to uBlock Origin and Brave Shields. The inclusion of ABP doesn't effect privacy (ik people will understandably mention the ABP scandal) because they forked ABP and use custom filter lists, which is still a very good benefit above vanilla Chromium.

[neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

uBlock:

• Change uBlock blocking mode to Medium or Hard per their Github wiki. Can cause site breakage on shitty websites (eg sites that import large JS libraries from remote sources).

• Enable filterlist Privacy>Block Outside Intrusion to LAN (Access to LAN is used to fingerprint or by threat actors during reconnaissance phase of hacking)

• Consider enabling other filterlists included in uBlock.

Librewolf:

• Enable limiting of referrers under LibreWolf Preferences>Privacy>Limit cross-origin referers

• Enable letterboxing under LibreWolf Preferences>Fingerprinting>Enable letterboxing

[afk_strats@lemmy.world]

Neptr covered it better than I could've

[bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net]

Have you tried daily driving tor recently? You can certainly get slow speeds still, but in my experience recently they're generally not too bad most of the time, especially for things coming out of the major CDNs.

[madame_gaymes@programming.dev]

Use this site to test your uniqueness in different browsers and VPN setups:

https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/

I have found that Mullvad Browser + VPN (with DAITA and Multihop ON) are better than FireFox or LibreWolf. Me and another user on here went through a little back and forth comparing some things. Just follow the comment thread from here:

https://programming.dev/comment/15090531

(take it with a grain of salt and DYOR, we are not experts)

Also, I love Tor, but another reason to be careful: exit nodes can be run by anyone, including bad actors and any 3-letter agency in the world. At the very least, add a VPN layer when using Tor.

[madame_gaymes@programming.dev]

The more plugins you add, the more unique you become, just FYI.

[kat@orbi.camp]

Distro hopping from time to time. So enough to be familiar with the process...

[invisiblerasta@lemmy.ml]

Its is pretty easy to get rid of all the brave crap. You just need a policy file:

# cat /etc/brave/policies/managed/brave_policies.json
{
    "BraveRewardsDisabled": true,
    "BraveWalletDisabled": true,
    "BraveVPNDisabled": 1,
    "BraveAIChatEnabled": true,
    "NewTabPageLocation": "https://search.brave.com/",
    "TorDisabled": false,
    "PasswordManagerEnabled": false,
    "DnsOverHttpsMode": "automatic"
}