Advice Request Are you protected against online tracking? The EFF's Cover Your Tracks site has the answer

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Get tested: Cover Your Tracks

Cover Your Tracks is an online test by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to determine how well a browser is protecting user data against online tracking.

When you connect to a site using a browser, information is revealed to the site automatically. Sites may run scripts to gather additional information about the device that is used, and all of that may be used to track users across the Internet.

Cover Your Tracks is based on EFF's Panopticlick tool that the organization launched in 2010 and updated in 2015. Panopticlick redirects users to the new Cover Your Tracks tool automatically.

A click on the "test your browser" button on the site runs a quick check that determines the following:

1. Is the browser blocking advertisement?
2. Is the browser blocking trackers.
3. Is the browser unblocking third-parties that honor Do Not Track?
4. Has the browser a unique fingerprint?

The test results are displayed on a single page right after the test.

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Cover Your Tracks is an online test by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to determine how well a browser is protecting user data against online tracking.Â

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[Ink]

Brave for Android results:

Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking, though your software isn’t checking for Do Not Track policies.

Blocking tracking ads?	Yes
Blocking invisible trackers?	Yes
Unblocking 3rd parties that honor Do Not Track?	No
Protecting you from fingerprinting?	your browser has a randomized fingerprint

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Google Chrome with just uBlock Origin on my work laptop:

Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking, though your software isn’t checking for Do Not Track policies.

Blocking tracking ads?	Yes
Blocking invisible trackers?	Yes
Unblocking 3rd parties that honor Do Not Track?	No
Protecting you from fingerprinting?	Your browser has a unique fingerprint

 

[Ink]

Is that with DNT enabled or disabled?

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Is that with DNT enabled or disabled?

It was with that setting disabled in Chrome.
Enabling that setting and clearing cookies give me the same result for "Unblocking 3rd parties that honor Do Not Track?", but now for fingerprinting I get: "Your browser has a nearly-unique fingerprint". Maybe because I ran the test before?

 

[Cortex]

Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking, though your software isn’t checking for Do Not Track policies.​

Blocking tracking ads?	Yes
Blocking invisible trackers?	Yes
Unblocking 3rd parties that honor Do Not Track?	No
Protecting you from fingerprinting?	◕ your browser has a randomized fingerprint

Brave & IVPN Anti-tracker

 

[Threadripper]

Blocking tracking ads?	Yes
Blocking invisible trackers?	Yes
Unblocking 3rd parties that honor Do Not Track?	No
Protecting you from fingerprinting?	Your browser has a unique fingerprint

One thing to note regarding the unique fingerprint - in my case it isn't a bad thing. I have privacy.resistFingerprinting enabled in about:config on my Firefox install meaning that my unique fingerprint changes on every single refresh or new website visit.

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

It can also be so that there are not a lot browsers tested yet, that's why most fingerprints are unique.
Other results next month?
Unblocking 3rd parties that honor Do Not Track can be fixed by adding Privacy Badger, but that's only cosmetic because I still have 3rd party cookies blocked.
This gives me doubts about the accuracy of this test.

 

[HarborFront]

The test reveals one thing.

Setting a custom User Agent in Adguard for Windows won't work as it revealed the true User Agent in my Ungoogled Chromium browser. I used Trace extension to randomize the User Agent instead

 

[Viking]

Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking, though your software isn’t checking for Do Not Track policies.​

Blocking tracking ads?	Yes
Blocking invisible trackers?	Yes
Unblocking 3rd parties that honor Do Not Track?	No
Protecting you from fingerprinting?	Your browser has a unique fingerprint

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking, though your software isn’t checking for Do Not Track policies.​

Blocking tracking ads?	Yes
Blocking invisible trackers?	Yes
Unblocking 3rd parties that honor Do Not Track?	No
Protecting you from fingerprinting?	Your browser has a unique fingerprint

Wich browser?

 

[gigi64]

Firefox + ublock + Privacy Badger + windscribe vpn

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Without Privacy Badger:

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Tor Browser (security level : Safest)

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Epic Browser +Ad Block Filter :

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Vivaldi ,Block Trackers and Add (No ADDone):

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[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Firefox + ublock + Privacy Badger + windscribe vpn
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Without Privacy Badger:
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Yes, like I posted Privacy badger only changes the outcome for unlocking 3rd party cookies that honor do not track.
But you can or are still blocking them, just cosmetics. Not of any use next to uBlock Origin.

 

[tipo]

firefox with ublock and avg extensions.

Blocking tracking ads?	Yes
Blocking invisible trackers?	Yes
Unblocking 3rd parties that honor Do Not Track?	No
Protecting you from fingerprinting?	Your browser has a unique fingerprint

 

[plat]

Results are similar whether Trace is on or disabled--browser is unique. It's a matter of degree, but you know what? Doesn't matter! You can track me with the little bits or the big bits.

For fun,, the second snip shows the result with my hardware cpu spoofed, the third is with the spoofer disabled. Makes no difference with the "uniqueness" of the browser Opera.

Hmmm, I have to meditate on this awhile.

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Edge has the same Do Not Track setting enabled as Opera but the result is almost identical.

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

It seems that only Brave works against fingerprinting on this test site.

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

The test reveals one thing.

Setting a custom User Agent in Adguard for Windows won't work as it revealed the true User Agent in my Ungoogled Chromium browser. I used Trace extension to randomize the User Agent instead

This is always the case and not only since this rebuild site.
Sites can get the real useragent no matter if it's modified or not. This is possible with JavaScript and APIs

 

[HarborFront]

This is always the case and not only since this rebuild site.
Sites can get the real useragent no matter if it's modified or not. This is possible with JavaScript and APIs

This is definitely not my user agent

 

[silversurfer]

Brave on Windows 10 (no other browser extensions, except Bitwarden).

 

[Stas]

On Firefox with uBO I get Ad Blocker Used = False
On Brave with built-in ad blocker I get Ad Blocker Used = True