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Firefox and cookieless tracking
Originally posted by wargames View PostHi Luke,
That's good to know. My Firefox installation is reported as unique though. I think it has something to do with the fact that the browser is reporting the installed fonts (and their names) to the analyzing site. Why the hell do they allow that ? This makes cookieless tracking very easy as you said.
Extensions don't seem to be a problem, but run either a common set of plugins or none at all. Be SURE to disable gnome-shell integration, cinnamon integration, etc! They are reported by Javascript used to fingerprint plugins, and greatly narrow down the range of possible browsers, often enough for Panopticlick's sample size to be too small to see more than once instance, thus you come up unique. For the same reason, if you use any plugins at all, you must install Flash (any version). If you cannot use Flash, disable all plugins,
Do NOT install any uncommon fonts, and be sure to have all the usual ones installed. Most Ubuntu installs of any particular version all have the same fonts installed. Also, consider copying the user-agent from Torbrowser and setting Firefox in about:config to report it, you will strip out some identifying information, in my case enough to make the difference. This is it, it claims to be Windows.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0
Although Windows with a Totem video player is a giveaway that you use some form of Linux, so many people spoof useragents that that does not make my normal Firefox browser come up as unique. Standard I concern myself with is "enough for a search warrant."
When it counts, use Torbrowser! You block anyone from logging your IP address, as well as coming up very common in Panopticlic due to anti-fingerprinting precautions taken by the Tor folks in setting up their custom version of Firefox. Mine comes up as one out of 9,180 with
Javascript enabled, better than my normal install with it disabled.
One last thing I always do is this: I copy my .mozilla directory into a ramdisk by a script and run from it. Same script cleans out the .macromedia flash cookie directory on closing. This way nobody can set a "supercookie" that won't be cleaned out on closing the browser and deleting it's directory from ram. In Torbrowser, which runs from it's own folder, no script is needed to do this, just drop a copy of the whole folder into /tmp and run from there.
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Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostI could list a 100 ways firefox is better, but for lite use chromium might be the better choice and it almost certainly is for phone and tablet use right now. So this probably makes sense for Canonical.
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All server records are subject to subpeona
Originally posted by allenmaher View PostI read pharonix for news on exciting upcoming linux development... I read the forums when I want to laugh at the tinfoil hat crowd. Keep posting guys. Seriously, this should be bottled. Conspiracy lurking around every corner, they are reading my keystrokes, company-X (read Canonical most of the time) is out to subvert our goals and make money. Not that this post is the worst offender, by far.
I would say relax, but I don't want to spoil my amusement.
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Originally posted by Ericg View PostAny specific reason for the sarcasm, Calinou? The Pentium 3 line especially was uncalled for. I care about ram usage because my laptop has soldered on ram so I'm locked at 4GB so I do have to care a out ram usage. and no I'd you're anything like me you have more than 5 tabs open. maybe I'm the exception but I frequently have 10+
It helped me recently to browse forums and get info to recover an unrelated bios upgrade near disaster of my desktop machine. Never trust Asus (don't update when it works), their ezflash is crap (downgrades are blocked!) it was flashrom and linux who rescued it.
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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostTake a minute or two to browse your phone or tablet over to ANY website that is render heavy. Watch chrome fall flat on its face and peg your CPU. Watch chrome become totally unresponsive. Watch chrome do the chunky scroll. Now try the same site on Firefox, watch it run fluid, smooth, and responsive. Chrom[e/ium] is absolutely trash on mobile. The only reason it is even marginally acceptable on desktop systems is because you have so much processing power than you don't notice just how horrible it actually is.
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