I really enjoy Firefox on Android as I can install a bunch of extensions and I find those extensions game changer, especially on the mobile.
One of my favorites are
- Libredirect - literally one of my favorite ones. Redirects popular sites to privacy focused frontends, like YouTube to Invidious, etc.
- uBlock Origin - I guess everyone knows this one
- Privacy Badger - blocks trackers
- Ghostery - blocks trackers, ads, scripts, etc.
What extensions do you guys use?
Chameleon. My user agent changes every 30 seconds. Makes attempts to track me basically useless.
I would imagine many services would think you’re hijacking the session or something.
Changing your user agent will not stop you being tracked. Browser fingerprinting can work with heaps of different signals, and is very difficult to block.
It means I’m being tracked for 30 seconds. So basically useless tracking.
Chameleon doesn’t just change the user agent. It changes a bunch of stuff that’s used to break fingerprinting. Of course you have a fingerprint, but it constantly changes so that the data they collect is so short lived that its useless to them and therefore very useful to me.
- Go here: https://fingerprint.com/demo/
- Note your fingerprint ID
- Wait whatever time you want
- Try again
- It’s the same ID
You can try to fool it with a VPN, change country, etc but it doesn’t work. Fingerprinting is very strong these days.
Are you passing CloudFlare captchas with that? I’m using a VPN and whenever I hit a CloudFlare captcha with a modified user agent, it doesn’t let me pass.
