Advanced Plus Security oldschool's laptop setup 2020

[ForgottenSeer 823865]

In fact, in the debate about no noise vs lot of fake noise, I believe it is the same.
To sites with sophisticated data mining tools, no noise makes you stand among the other same as making lot if noise.
Using an analogy, if you go to the church and everybody is praying, the one who doesn't is as much distinguishable to the attentive observer than the one who pray loudly.

This kind of debate is old as the internet itself, before it was "do I need to hide ports with my firewall or not?" some say yes so the hacker can't see your computer; opposition said "when hackers scan IPs and ports, if no response is coming back, probably a computer is hiding and may contain valuable things, so it become a more interesting target than the ones who don't hide"

Personally I'm the kind of guy that prefer hide in plain sight.

 

[oldschool]

Personally I'm the kind of guy that prefer hide in plain sight.

I guess you are :

Chrome isolated in ReHIPS: (Customized via various flags) using Netcraft, WD Browser Protection, Privacy Possum, Scriptsafe.
- Firefox isolated in ReHIPS: (Customized via various flags) using Netcraft, Privacy Possum, CanvasBlocker, Scriptsafe.
- Adguard For Desktop (customized)
- Mullvad VPN (dual-hop)

 

[ForgottenSeer 823865]

Yeah, you can see me, but not the real me

 

[Azure]

Personally I'm the kind of guy that prefer hide in plain sight.

I imagine that's a reason why the Brave devs decided to implement canvas protection with a fixed value instead of generating random ones like some extensions do.

Fingerprinting Protection Mode

Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows. - brave/brave-browser

github.com

"Canvas fingerprinting: it should report a fixed value on tests like panopticlick"

 

[oldschool]

I imagine that's a reason why the Brave devs decided to implement canvas protection with a fixed value instead of generating random ones like some extensions do.

Fingerprinting Protection Mode

Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows. - brave/brave-browser

github.com

"Canvas fingerprinting: it should report a fixed value on tests like panopticlick"

Indeed. As I said earlier, it's a see-saw battle between Trackers and Users. You pick an option or strategy and hope for the best.

 

[SeriousHoax]

After ditching Privacy Possum I've added this extension in Firefox. You can check this out. The extension page explains what it does.

ETag Stoppa – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download ETag Stoppa for Firefox. Prevents Firefox from storing entity tags by removing ETag response headers unconditionally and without exceptions. Minimalism at its fullest.

addons.mozilla.org

 

[oldschool]

After ditching Privacy Possum I've added this extension in Firefox. You can check this out. The extension page explains what it does.

ETag Stoppa – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download ETag Stoppa for Firefox. Prevents Firefox from storing entity tags by removing ETag response headers unconditionally and without exceptions. Minimalism at its fullest.

addons.mozilla.org

This guy is clearly one of "less noise" canvas blocking strategists. The add-on page is a great resource too.

 

[oldschool]

@SeriousHoax I've added it along with Temporary Containers. I like TC in automatic mode, which I don't remember it having when I tried it in earlier FF versions.

 

[SeriousHoax]

@SeriousHoax I've added it along with Temporary Containers. I like TC in automatic mode, which I don't remember it having when I tried it in earlier FF versions.

Temporary Containers has automatic mode for a while now but yes it didn't have it at first I think. I'm not using automatic mode instead I made two changes to the global isolation rule and have "privacy.firstparty.isolate" enabled in about:config but automatic mode is nice & hassle free.

 

[oldschool]

have "privacy.firstparty.isolate" enabled in about:config

I have this + Temp Containers.

 

[SeriousHoax]

There are other useful extensions like ClearURLs, Decentraleyes. I use this two in chromium browsers also.

ClearURLs – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download ClearURLs for Firefox. Removes tracking elements from URLs

addons.mozilla.org

Decentraleyes – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Decentraleyes for Firefox. Protects you against tracking through "free", centralized, content delivery. It prevents a lot of requests from reaching networks like Google Hosted Libraries, and serves local files to keep sites from breaking. Complements regular content blockers.

addons.mozilla.org

There's also Firefox exclusive extensions like this two:

Don't touch my tabs! (rel=noopener) – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Don't touch my tabs! (rel=noopener) for Firefox. Prevent tabs opened by a hyperlink from hijacking the previous tab by adding the rel=noopener attribute to all hyperlinks (excluding same-domain hyperlinks).

addons.mozilla.org

Smart Referer – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Smart Referer for Firefox. Improve your privacy by limiting Referer information leak! Please note that this extension has been largely superseded by better browser defaults for websites using HTTPS (almost all) and is not maintained anymore.

addons.mozilla.org

If you keep looking there's many useful ones out there that's why I've stopped looking