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A few question from a noob (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by Username85920@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I recently tried to clean up my digital life. I switched to Linux and switched to GrapheneOS and made more use of my proton subscription to replace google. But I have a few questions :

I tried https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ on Librewolf on my PC and Vanadium on my phone and it say I have a nearly unique fingerprint. Is the benefit of using a privacy focused browser neglected by the low userbase and unique fingerprint ?

I did not have a great digital hygiene before so I have a google account, meta... How do I clean this up ? Are services like Incogni any good or is it just marketing ?

Finally I wanted to use tails with persistent storage to use as a live system if I ever need to use a PC that is not my own to connect to my accounts. However, I don't want the ISP to know I use Tor. I see it as a big "I have something to hide" flag for the ISP. But my understanding is if I install a VPN on tails it will be Tor over VPN (bad if I understand correctly) instead of VPN over Tor. Should I use something else than tails since I only want/need always on VPN with kill switch.

Thanks a lot for your help. I want to say the journey is much easier than what I anticipated. The hardest part is making people switch around me. The lobbying has started.

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[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It still gives metrics. And yes, Creepjs is not very useful against randomized values, though I noted it still because Brave fails (resulting in a persistent fingerprint) whereas Cromite succeeded to fool Creepjs. Both have many methods of fingerprinting protection.

Checking the fingerprinting protections of Mullvad and Tor is better done with TorZillaPrint test page by Arkenfox. It is optimized to tell you whether you blend in correctly with RFP normalized values.

[–] voxel@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The Brave browser has much better blocking capabilities with the goal of offering all of the uBlock Origins features, while Cromite has an ABP integration which has weaker and less support for advanced filterlists. The default filterlists selection is also quite questionable. A blocked script can no longer track you.

Brave's fingerprinting protection measures are technically speaking superior than Cromite, the only reason that CreepJS can't be fooled by it all the time (I've done my own tests and it fails sometimes) is that it has specifically been designed to adapt to its protection mechanisms, which hasn't been done for Cromite.

You can also harden Brave to increase its level of protection:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop-browsers/#brave

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/mobile-browsers/#recommended-brave-configuration