This has been going on for years, including inside the EU, for those wondering. You can test to see if it happens for you by going to a flight website, getting a price for a flight, then go back a few times to search for the same flight.
The question of what you do to fight it is by clearing the cookie for the website, using a different browser and/or changing your location/block tracking (use a VPN or tor). Usually clearing the cookie is enough.
If clearing the cookie works, then this is not browser fingerprinting. Browser fingerprinting is about storing information about your browser (screen size, languages enabled, user agent, canvas rendering, and more) you can find whether this information is unique for your browser in https://amiunique.org/
You have to understand that that number is grossly skewed and completely meaningless. Think of the person who would be most likely to use that website. It’s logical to assume that many of them are Firefox users, who tend to be more privacy oriented. I doubt your average chrome or safari user is worrying about their privacy. Probably only Reddit or Lemmy users (or other tech forum users) have even heard of this website. The actual market share of Firefox is low as fuck. I think it was like 1% lol. So uea, of coirse that website is going to show a ton of Firefox users by % of total users.
Edit: Just in case it wasn’t clear. The 42% is the % of firefox users out of THE USERS OF THAT WEBSITE, not actual Firefox user %.
How badly does resist fingerprinting break sites? And what is the best way to fix it when it breaks? Is using Firefox but not using resist fingerprinting stupid?
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This has been going on for years, including inside the EU, for those wondering. You can test to see if it happens for you by going to a flight website, getting a price for a flight, then go back a few times to search for the same flight.
The question of what you do to fight it is by clearing the cookie for the website, using a different browser and/or changing your location/block tracking (use a VPN or tor). Usually clearing the cookie is enough.
If clearing the cookie works, then this is not browser fingerprinting. Browser fingerprinting is about storing information about your browser (screen size, languages enabled, user agent, canvas rendering, and more) you can find whether this information is unique for your browser in https://amiunique.org/
Firefox has a newer feature to apparently block your browser fingerprinting. Go to about:config and search “fingerprint”.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-against-fingerprinting
Ironically by using Firefox you’re already completely unique since Firefox has like 0.5% marke share lol.
Firefox users check this out (if you didn’t see my reply above):
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-against-fingerprinting
42.65% according to the website they linked.
You have to understand that that number is grossly skewed and completely meaningless. Think of the person who would be most likely to use that website. It’s logical to assume that many of them are Firefox users, who tend to be more privacy oriented. I doubt your average chrome or safari user is worrying about their privacy. Probably only Reddit or Lemmy users (or other tech forum users) have even heard of this website. The actual market share of Firefox is low as fuck. I think it was like 1% lol. So uea, of coirse that website is going to show a ton of Firefox users by % of total users.
Edit: Just in case it wasn’t clear. The 42% is the % of firefox users out of THE USERS OF THAT WEBSITE, not actual Firefox user %.
I’m probably 89% of the 42%.
I enjoy refreshing the page to see my browser fingerpriny say %100 unique.
Every time.
If you don’t use “resist fingerprints” in firefox, or don’t use firefox, use a canvas blocker plugin.
And turn off webrtc, webgl2; use ublock origin plugin, block 3rd party cookies, and clear your damn cache and history.
How badly does resist fingerprinting break sites? And what is the best way to fix it when it breaks? Is using Firefox but not using resist fingerprinting stupid?
It has never broken any site i have used.
Does firefox have any fingerprinting protection by default even if you do NOT enable resist fingerprinting in about:config?
You are close, it seems Firefox is estimate to a max of 3 percent and dropping.
Thanks mate !