Browser Privacy Settings

Graham1 · December 24, 2016, 10:25am

I have a couple of questions which I hope someone can explain/answer

Should “Send a “Do Not Track” request with your browsing traffic” be enabled?
Are there any extensions available for Chrome which protect against fingerprinting?

My questions are based from the results from this site https://panopticlick.eff.org/

Dennis2 · December 24, 2016, 5:11pm

Re 1 I am not sure this gets you anywhere

There is always someone else watching you

Dennis

JoWa · December 24, 2016, 5:31pm

Yes. But be aware that only very few honour your DNT-request.
Privacy Badger 1.0+ blocks fingerprinting by third parties, when it detects that it is used to track you (same as for cookies). See privacybadger/DESIGN-AND-ROADMAP.md at master · EFForg/privacybadger · GitHub

Graham1 · December 24, 2016, 9:35pm

That is why I’m unsure :-. It looks like you should enable this feature but then again, it lets sites know your presence.

There is always someone else watching you :)

I know but you’ve got to try.

Graham1 · December 24, 2016, 9:44pm

Are there any negitives on enabling this feature?

2. Privacy Badger 1.0+ blocks fingerprinting by third parties, when it detects that it is used to track you (same as for cookies). See https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/blob/master/doc/DESIGN-AND-ROADMAP.md#fingerprinting-detection

There must be some extensions (or browsers) that block this directly.

_{Corrected quote tags. JoWa}

JoWa · December 25, 2016, 8:18am

Do you mean block the site you visit from “fingerprinting” you? To begin with, I’m not sure that is always a good idea. Sites may make good use of the information, to give you the best possible version of the webpage etc. To disable JavaScript seems to be a way to block it, but it is also a way to brake most of the web.