Firefox has an experimental feature to block your fingerprint. A few things I’ve seen make me think it works (Google thought I was running Windows NT not Linux, among other things):
On android, firefox doesnt have the same option. But, you can use a browser like Mull (a firefox fork) which has all rhe same options as desktop, with the privacy settings of tor browser enabled by default - no fingerprints. (They’ll be fake and new every time)
You can try chameleon on ff but I haven’t fully tested it myself. Could also modify config value if u don’t want an extension but u need to look up the values and it can be quite tedious.
I guess my issue is that I want an extension to automatically plug in all the different user agents, geolocations, etc. to find the cheapest one. Having an extension to enable me to change these things myself is nice but not what I’d find most useful, you know?
I dont see that as an possibility given all the complications. You can make a custom extension work for a particular site to fetch the price and go through a shit ton of possible variations of browser, os, screen resolution and all those sht that goes in the fingerprint, reloading the page everytime but that would be awfully ineffective and slow. And making a generalized extension that can do the same for every website is pretty much impossible.
If it’s for a specific website, it shouldn’t be that hard to whip up a python script using selenium. It might not work for everything but you can change location and user agent from what I remember
Someone posted about a website called canvas blocker to your original comment that could find the fingerprint, I haven’t got a chance to test it myself but you can try it out and let me know if it was any good.
I’m guessing someone will have to figure out the algorithms through reverse engineering for each site then put together an extension. I will need to have some kind of vpn to change the ip address though.
update
The best way to fight this is to make it illegal.
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What can we do about this? Do any browser add-ons exist to test different locations and different browser fingerprints to find the lowest price?
Firefox has an experimental feature to block your fingerprint. A few things I’ve seen make me think it works (Google thought I was running Windows NT not Linux, among other things):
Not to spam the thread with this link:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-against-fingerprinting
They do.
Canvas blocker is one.
If you use firefox (desktop), you dont need a plugin. Go to about:config find privacy.resistFingerprinting
Double click and flip from false to true.
Done.
Go to browserleaks.com/canvas and check your fingerprint.
On android, firefox doesnt have the same option. But, you can use a browser like Mull (a firefox fork) which has all rhe same options as desktop, with the privacy settings of tor browser enabled by default - no fingerprints. (They’ll be fake and new every time)
You can try chameleon on ff but I haven’t fully tested it myself. Could also modify config value if u don’t want an extension but u need to look up the values and it can be quite tedious.
I guess my issue is that I want an extension to automatically plug in all the different user agents, geolocations, etc. to find the cheapest one. Having an extension to enable me to change these things myself is nice but not what I’d find most useful, you know?
I dont see that as an possibility given all the complications. You can make a custom extension work for a particular site to fetch the price and go through a shit ton of possible variations of browser, os, screen resolution and all those sht that goes in the fingerprint, reloading the page everytime but that would be awfully ineffective and slow. And making a generalized extension that can do the same for every website is pretty much impossible.
Ah, that’s what I was afraid of. Oh well. I see what you mean.
If it’s for a specific website, it shouldn’t be that hard to whip up a python script using selenium. It might not work for everything but you can change location and user agent from what I remember
Someone posted about a website called canvas blocker to your original comment that could find the fingerprint, I haven’t got a chance to test it myself but you can try it out and let me know if it was any good.
You might want to consider faking your geolocation. That’s how people played Pokemon Go.
I’m guessing someone will have to figure out the algorithms through reverse engineering for each site then put together an extension. I will need to have some kind of vpn to change the ip address though.
update The best way to fight this is to make it illegal.
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