Last Friday @privacyguides released its second episode this year of This Week in Privacy! 
You can now watch it from our PeerTube instance!
Lots of very important topics being discussed in there: https://neat.tube/w/4ZCEWBfujAqHRRABNBhjB9
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@jon Regulation can work while simultaneously building permissionless #freedomtech that defeats surveillance techniques like #fingerprinting. I love the work #HydraVeil and #Nym are doing in this regard.
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Consider using JShelter to mitigate potential threats such as browser fingerprinting.
WARNING
New research provides evidence of online tracking via browser fingerprints.
Source: https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2025/06/websites-are-tracking-you-via-browser-fingerprinting.html
Website: https://jshelter.org
Scientific study finds that #adtech IS using browser #fingerprinting to track people and so it no longer matters so much how good you are at blocking #cookies and #trackers 
https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2025/06/websites-are-tracking-you-via-browser-fingerprinting.html
They call on browser makers to do more. @jon is your team putting effort into this area?
@johnnyryan I suggest this area is added to your investigations since it is linked to the #RTB system and #databrokers 
engineering.tamu.eduWebsites Are Tracking You Via Browser FingerprintingNew research provides first evidence of the use of browser fingerprints for online tracking.
10 Browser Security Myths You Need to Stop Believing
#privacy
Yesterday I started participating in a study about #browserfingerprinting where I can test several browsers with various configurations. And it shows, if it can link my session to an older one.
The only linkable Browser until now (2 tests with same browser) has been #vanadium browser.
I test on the following...
...on Windows 10:
- Edge as my Company installed it
- Chrome as my company installed it with uBlockOrigin in hard mode
- Firefox with uBlock in hard mode
- Firefox with Arkenfox and uBlock in Medium mode
...on my GrapheneOS Pixel:
- Firefox focus without JS
- Firefox nightly with uBlock in medium mode
- Vanadium
- Brave
Yesterday I started participating in a study about #browserfingerprinting where I can test several browsers with various configurations. And it shows, if it can link my session to an older one.
The only linkable Browser until now (2 tests with same browser) has been #vanadium browser.
I test on the following...
...on Windows 10:
- Edge as my Company installed it
- Chrome as my company installed it with uBlockOrigin in hard mode
- Firefox with uBlock in hard mode
- Firefox with Arkenfox and uBlock in Medium mode
...on my GrapheneOS Pixel:
- Firefox focus without JS
- Firefox nightly with uBlock in medium mode
- Vanadium
- Brave
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@leberschnitzel shure. Take your time.
- Usually the most effective solutions are further away from said webserver.
Espechally since #JavaScript gets universally blocked by users of @torproject / #TorBrowser like myself simply because every single piece of #JS I came across was not "technically necessary" if not outright #malware designed to do #Cryptojacking, #BrowserFingerprinting and/or steal logins.
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Shure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dread_(forum)
Another Forum that has implemented good Anti-DDoS seems to be BreachForums
One does have to admit they are able to do #DDoS-#protection w/o value-removing middlemen, #JavaScript and #BrowserFingerprinting…
en.wikipedia.orgDread (forum) - Wikipedia
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@jbz this is why using @torproject / #TorBrowser is my main recommendation.
- Cuz they'll inherently keep #ads out of it if not for the sake of #accessibility and saving #traffic on #Tor, then it's to enshure #privacy of users and twart #BrowserFingerprinting tactics!
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@oblomov My initial gut reaction was the same. And I still think it may be wise to opt out of this experiment until it is better understood.
But what if this initiative could indeed serve as a privacy-preserving replacement for #tracking? It looks better than all the terrible ideas Google came up with to replace cookies (#FLoC #PrivacySandbox #TopicsAPI) let alone #browserFingerprinting.
Here is my take on Mozilla's #privacyPreservingAttribution aka #privateAttribution: https://suma-ev.social/@christian/112761712837712799
suma-ev.socialChristian Pietsch 🍑 (@christian@suma-ev.social)#Firefox 128 is here. With it comes a new section in the privacy and security settings called "Website Advertising Preferences" containing a ticked box labeled "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement". The help text linked there sounds promising: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution
#Mozilla to provide a surveillance-free alternative to #tracking?
Technical explainer: https://github.com/mozilla/explainers/tree/main/ppa-experiment
What do #privacy experts think?
#ppa #dap #privateAttribution #privacyPreservingAttribution
@fen @elilla #Microsoft demanding #TPM only serves them to force #CensorBoot into systems and prevent people from switching to #Linux or setting up #DualBoot systems.
- It has nothing to to with #Security, because they publicly admitted that #TPMs are not #secure, otherwise they would've used them in the #XboxOne!
In terms of #BrowserFingerprinting: Use @torproject / #TorBrowser to give #Google the finger!
#DailyBloggingChallenge (58/100)
Account #isolation #security (continues)
Account isolation doesn’t just have to be on the device level, but can also be done on the software level like the #browser.
The benefit of using multiple browsers is that #cookies cannot cross browsers: making the pesky #trackers be browser bound and making browser fingerprinting harder to achieve. This will give oneself an edge on personal data protection.
Some browsers have the option to use containers, though it can feel like the overview is quickly lost and potentially it could be a bigger strain on the device.
Browser suggestions:
One should choose the browser dependent on the login credentials one will be using. For example if one will be using Google services like #Gmail or #YouTube, then the obvious choice is Chrome.
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@kreig In case anyone comes to this thread and wonders why you need to protect your hedgehog status or screen density, be sure to read to up on Browser Fingerprinting.
This sort of trackability isn’t obvious at first, as it would require so much data about so many people at once to be useful. But, yeah, they have that.
coveryourtracks.eff.orgCover Your Tracks | AboutSee how trackers view your browser
Using Firefox with privacy.resistFingerPrinting turned on. Living on the edge!