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bluFox  ·  3543 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: ​Your Porn Is Watching You

Being fingerprinted is a problem that has not received wide attention. Unfortunately there are very few guides as to how to avoid it. Here are a few ways you can avoid being fingerprinted by porn (or ad companies for that matter) in decreasing order of identifying bits (at the very least ).

- If nothing else, always use incognito or private mode (It reduces the plugins that are active, and removes some bits from your unique fingerprint)

- Use a different browser entirely for porn or other private things

- Get in the habit of using a virtual machine for your private browsing.

- Use an anonymizing proxy, or a separate VPN for private things than the one you use for your other browsing. (removes your original IP info)

- Use TOR

Finally, use the eff tool panopticlick to verify that you are indeed not unique.