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I've always thought there should be a way to use the browser like a condom. It should obfuscate all the things that make a user uniquely identifiable. Mouse movement/clicks/typing cadence should be randomized and sanitized a bit. And no website should have any authority whatsoever to identify your extensions or other tabs, or even whether or not your tab is open. And it certainly shouldn't allow a website to overrule your right click functionality, or zoom, or other accessibility features.



The obfuscation makes you more easily identifiable.


I think their idea was that it would be in the browser everyone uses.


Exactly. My thought was this should be the default configuration in the browser.


How so?


Eldo Kim

you stand out when you obviously hide


only if you are the only one doing the obfuscation.

It's why tor browser is set to a specific dimension (in terms of pixel size), have the same set of available fonts etc.


And yet you still stand out if you use tor.


yes, and it's because not enough people use tor-browser (i meant the browser, not the network).

But if privacy is truly the desired goal, the regular browser ought to behave just like tor-browser.


Tor Browser safe mode. That is one of few ways to defeat that fingerprinting thing.




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