I went on amiunique.com, and it says that I’m unique.

Lowest scores: list of fonts JS (0.01%), canvas (0.00%), media devices (0.00%), and audio data (0.80%)

I use Linux Mint Debian edition, Librewolf browser, and Mullvad VPN. How do I become less unique?

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EFF is an org that I’d run to join if they had a position I could fill. I’ve been on their side since the 90s, when I was too young to tell if I was choosing the right side because I didn’t understand everything they advocated because I was a kid. They are the ACLU of the internet.

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If you are trying to obfuscate instead of poisoning your data, you are doing it wrong. You can’t be identified if your fingerprint is always different.

Fingerprinting panic is some bullshit created by brave browser, a bloated shitware than installs a lot of unnecessary crap on your device, including their own advertisement engine.

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Try the chameleon extension https://github.com/sereneblue/chameleon

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Go with Brave. They add stuff to your fingerprint, so that is is completely irrelevant!

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Brave isn’t a thrust-worthy company

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Less unique is equal to what majority of other’s do.

So

  • Windows
  • Chrome (stock settings, maybe some addons like grammarly)
  • No VPN
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I know you’re saying to use widely-used extensions, but for privacy-conscious users I wouldn’t suggest grammarly

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well. as another said, one is pretty unique the moment they seek online privacy. this is the sad reality of it. You want to blend in, less unique? Ditch privacy is a way to go. Is this a shit choice, of course it is. The otherway around is embrace the uniquess on every refresh of the page. However, I still have a hard time to beat some very sophisticated fingerprinting engines. Or you can disable Javascript and you won’t be fingerprint-able at all along a VPN.

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Sure I after with that first point. But actively feeding all of your typed text to a corporate owned server isn’t the only way to so that.

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