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ubojan on Dec 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Can websites personally identify visitors?

Can we share tips for "feeding" a browser with fake data and keeping some level of anonymity? For example, I noticed that one of the factors for Panopticlick is time zone. This is easily faked with changing a time zone on your computer and then starting a browser. You can fake IP address with anonymous proxies and change user agent in browser settings. Is there a way to change/fake plugin and fonts list as these are worst offenders regarding fingerprinting?

97-109-107 on Dec 9, 2012 | [–]

Yes, there are too small projects that I know about for Firefox: Firegloves https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firegloves/ Blender https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blender-1/?sr...

vonuebelgarten on Dec 9, 2012 | [–]

Seems an interesting idea for a Firefox add-on. Also, randomizing part of the user agent for each domain should be nice too.

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