How to prevent tracking:
- Run on TailsOS
- Use Tor Browser at the safest level
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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A VPN is useless. You're introducing another entity that can track you.
A VPN actually hides your IP from the webpage.
Does it hide your IP from the VPN provider?
So does CGNAT.
If you are using Firefox based browser get Consent-o-matic. It will actively opt you out of cookie windows instead of hiding them like others do.
Just note that using extensions can make you vulnerable to fingerprinting.
As is everything you do. Screen size, orientation, languages, browser, browser version, even battery level until recently.
they can very effectively track you by fingerprinting your browser + tracking your ip if applicable.
There are so few sites that should leave a cookie I just set it to purge everything on browser close, and then make exceptions for the ones who actually should leave a cookie.
Pretty sure every browser now has the option to dump all the data when it closes.
I would do that but I want to stay logged in on some websites like lichess.
The login scene is so terrible nowadays with 2fa, passkeys etc. It's not as easy as just remembering a password or using a simple password manager.
Look for 'manage exceptions' in the settings if your browser is Firefox-based.
Just whitelist the ones you want to keep. Pretty sure Firefox now let's you whitelist, I use a plug in because I've been doing it that way for years (ie before ff had the option)
Wait, foxfire does it natively now? I’ve been installing cookie autodelete for years
I assumed you meant the whitelisting not the autodelete - cookie autodelete on close has been in FF for years, but some time recently they brought in whitelisting as well - go to settings, privacy and security, cookies and site data, manage exceptions
Might be worth deleting CAD and use the inbuilt option to reduce canvas fingerprinting
Deleting cookies on close? I had my Firefox set up to do that about 20 years ago
Oh. Turns out I just wasn’t looking properly
Pretty sure i saw it the other day and yeah me too on CAD
Use two browsers. One for logins, the other dumps all data on close.
I use Waterfox which forgets all data on exit, with Privacy Badger and Port Authority extensions with no exclusions.
So far, no sites really "break", if anything, they're a little quicker.. reading mode is nice to get passed paywall popups on most sites that want a subscribe.
If at work, I include the company-provided password manager for all my sites I need. Still works well (unless my post gets attention and companies try to break it)