Can someone help me understand this? If hundreds of thousands of people use a popular browser extension, how does that make it easier for you to be singled out among them? I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around this, can anyone help?

  • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Yes, turning off adblocker is worse. You should be using Tor browser with default configuration to browse privately, and never sign in to anything to further avoid getting tracked.

      • refalo@programming.dev
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        2 years ago

        I don’t think it was meant exactly that literally. If you use online banking then of course you have to allow whatever they require for it to work. But for non-necessary services that have an account feature… any time you use those of course will have more of your information out there to sell and track.

      • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Don’t use your Tor session to sign in. Also banks will probably not let you sign in via Tor.

    • refalo@programming.dev
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      2 years ago

      In the context of fingerprinting I disagree. The vast majority of the world population do NOT use an ad-blocker (supposedly maybe 15% do at most)… so having an adblocker can be used to narrow you down even more IMO. Many extensions can have this issue afaik, especially if it modifies the DOM.

      • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        However, allowing ads means allowing tracking. You got corelation with the ads being served from ad brokers, who can now see what sites you been on and have a record of where you’ve been.