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A browser fingerprint comprises information obtained about a browser during normal use. Fingerprints can fully or partially identify individual users or devices even when cookies are turned off.
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I don't have an account on Flickr. Why am I shown as logged into Flickr on a fingerprinting ...
Looks like their script is broken.
It's trying to detect if you're signed in by checking if the login page redirects you to a favicon.ico file and flickr.com is redirecting anyway.
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Is manually resizing the Tor window dangerous?
Yes, it is harmful for the duration of the window at that size.
Specifically, manually resizing it will create a very unique fingerprint for your window size, which will persist until Tor Browser is …
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Why does Tor Browser screen size vary across monitors?
For more information, see The Design and Implementation of the Tor Browser, point 7 of the Fingerprinting Defenses says:
Monitor, Widget, and OS Desktop Resolution
Both CSS and JavaScript have access … In addition, to further reduce resolution-based fingerprinting, we are investigating zoom/viewport-based mechanisms that might allow us to always report the same desktop resolution regardless of the actual …
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Does Tor bundle discards cookies from a window or only from a session?
They're discarded on a per-session basis.
Using the 'New Tor Circuit for this Site' will only cause Tor Browser to use a new circuit for the site, it will not clear any other information. That is wha …
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Tails added Ublock Origin is this as bad as it looks?
No.
This is no different from the fact that Tails used to ship with AdBlock Plus, it's just a different extension.
Yes, it's fingerprintable but they can only tell you're using Tails.
No, it doesn' …
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Canvas fingerprinting: default to never for all websites
"Since it is clear that one does not want canvas fingerprinting..."
Actually, it's not. The canvas fingerprinting warning happens when a site tries to read the contents of a <canvas> element. … Since the <canvas> element and it's functionality wasn't designed for fingerprinting, there are infact plenty of legitimate use cases for sites reading the content of a <canvas> tag. …
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Should I change the timezone of my laptop to UTC?
The Tor daemon doesn't leak timezone, if it did it would split users anonymity sets. Relays shouldn't be able to distinguish sets of users, this would allow them to and would break some of the protect …
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Knowing all differences between Tor browser and normal Firefox to foil Tor detection techniques
how we can modify Tor browser to hide these footprints and look like a normal firefox user?
You cannot, some of Tor Browsers changes are hard coded patches. Trying to undo some of them by configuratio …
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Most common TOR browser configuration - panopticlick
While fingerprinting methods like Canvas, AudioContext and other features might leak information about configuration specifics and need to be addressed with patching or being disabled making your own " … [x and y guess incorrectly]"
Most browser fingerprintings sites are pretty naive PoC attempts, they're not performing advanced fingerprinting. …
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