HACKER Q&A
📣 jackallis

How to Prevent Website(s) from Fingerprinting?


I use Mozilla (71.0), with add ons - ghostery, privacy badger, ABP, No script. In privacy setting, for Mozilla, i chose custom,i.e to block fingerprinting. I ran EFF's Panopticlick [1] and it should that i am still being fingerprinted.

how to stop this?

[1]https://panopticlick.eff.org/


  👤 lioeters Accepted Answer ✓
Just saw this today:

An ongoing comprehensive user.js template for configuring and hardening Firefox privacy, security and anti-fingerprinting

https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js


👤 lookingforsome
there really isn't any simple way of being fingerprinted that I've come across other than generating noise, but I am not an expert in this area.

Anyone else want to chime in that has experience in this area?


👤 codegeek
I am not an expert in these but isn't' tracking IP address also part of fingerprinting ? If thats the case, other than using something like TOR, can you really hide that ?

👤 Tilian
Have you tried setting privacy.resistFingerprinting in about:config?

👤 dangerface
Use tor browser, its designed so that every one has the same fingerprint iirc.