Privacy Thing - Cross-browser extension to control fingerprinting surfaces
Show HN: I built a cross-browser extension that controls fingerprinting surfaces
Privacy Thing is a powerful cross-browser extension designed to significantly reduce digital fingerprinting across the web. It offers granular control over 53 browser properties, methods, and constructors, organized into 13 distinct protection categories including geolocation, Canvas, WebGL, and WebRTC. Available now as a Preview version for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, this tool empowers users to safeguard their online identity by masking sensitive device and environment data. By actively managing these fingerprinting surfaces, Privacy Thing helps maintain user anonymity without compromising essential browsing functionality.
Privacy Thing helps reduce fingerprinting across the web by covering 53 browser properties, methods, and constructors grouped into 13 protection categories.
- gruez
Anti-fingerprinting measures with configurable knobs is always going to be a risky proposition because those options themselves end up being a fingerprinting surface. It's better to take firefox/tor browser's approach and have a common profile eg. "resistfingerprinting" to get crowd anonymity.
- mtweak
Have you thought of active fingerprint pollution? Mathematically, find the search term that has the farthest embedding + noise than your current search term. You search for Harley Davidson, a parallel search is done for "3 mo old diapers".
Like another person said: passive fingerprint protection will be limited.
- xnx
The only thing that will protect against fingerprinting is enough people connecting through some type of stock configuration virtual machine.