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I got good results from the coveryourtracks website.
Me too.
BTW, even that test states that fingerprinting isn't the only thing that makes you safe on the web. But people like to play with it because it's a numbers game.
Most identifying data comes from my user agent, which is still set to FF on Linux - and I won't change it for this particular setup.
With this setup, I prefer to simply not allow trackers, full stop.
Where that isn't possible, I use a different setup.
There's no such thing as being invisible on the 'net. Even if you hide your IP, you always belong to a particular group of users with the same fingerprint. You can't belong to none.
Oh, and given Firefox' recent track record, it's not a badge of honor being (or having been) a CEO of it.
I just install uBlock origin and turn off all the tracking and password stuff.
Certainly Brendan Eich, who left Mozilla in April 2014 is much different than the recent ones. He resigned because he pissed off the LGBTQ community and he couldn't resolve it. An interesting read on his wikipedia page.
Brave Browser is really nice, as far as blocking ads and whatnot goes. There are a lot of features, many which I do not use however (such as Crypto Wallets) but the amount you earn from Brave Awards is pretty miniscule, so I just give it to some content creators and services I like.
I like the feature where if you get a 404 it will ask you if you want to check for a saved version in the Wayback Machine. Brave Sync is very secure and helps keep my bookmarks between my phone and my laptop.
All I am saying is that nothing I do now either requires one or benefits by a free or cheap one (or one compromised by either national or corporate interference).
'Nothing I do now'?
We use vpn because we don't want governments and companies knowing our life. And our children's life.
We use vpn to protect ourselves.
VPN is for a principle. Privacy and security.
VPN is not for people doing drugs or anything like that.
There's no such thing as being invisible on the 'net. Even if you hide your IP, you always belong to a particular group of users with the same fingerprint. You can't belong to none.
What about tor-browser?
Also, Brave browser is saying it's anonymous.
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Oh, and given Firefox' recent track record, it's not a badge of honor being (or having been) a CEO of it.
Netscape died to give life to FOSS FF (Free and open-souce firefox browser).
FOSS FF means Linux distros can have web browsers.
Brave Browser is really nice, as far as blocking ads and whatnot goes. There are a lot of features, many which I do not use however (such as Crypto Wallets) but the amount you earn from Brave Awards is pretty miniscule, so I just give it to some content creators and services I like.
Yes!!!
Isn't that what we really want to do for content creators?
1 You can create a more secure experience and block eg ads, scripts etc with a decent browser plus add-ons eg FF+noscript+ublock origin ( +ghostery+privacy badger etc ).
2 Avoiding being citified is MUCH harder and a separate qn.
FYI vpns, tor etc aren't as effective as you'd think ...
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