Analyze your browser's privacy settings, fingerprinting resistance, and tracking vulnerabilities.
Analyzing your browser...
Fingerprint Uniqueness:
Imagine walking into a crowded room. If you're wearing everyday clothes, you blend in with everyone else. But if you're wearing a bright purple hat, neon shoes, and a unique tattoo, you're easy to spot and remember.
Browser fingerprinting works the same way. Websites collect small details about your browser and device — like your screen size, installed fonts, browser version, and graphics card. Individually, these details seem harmless. But combined, they create a unique "fingerprint" that can identify you.
Your browser has many distinguishing features. Websites can easily identify and follow you across the internet, even without cookies.
Your browser shares some features with others, but still has enough unique characteristics to be partially identifiable.
Your browser looks similar to many others. You blend into the crowd, making it harder for websites to single you out.
The goal is to make your browser look like everyone else's. Here are practical steps you can take:
Browsers like Firefox, Brave, or Tor Browser include built-in fingerprint protection. Firefox's "Enhanced Tracking Protection" can block many fingerprinting attempts automatically.
Ironically, customizing your browser makes you more unique. Using default fonts, standard screen resolutions, and common browser settings helps you blend in with millions of other users.
Each extension you install can be detected and adds to your fingerprint. Use only essential extensions. Privacy extensions like uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger can actually help block fingerprinting scripts.
Canvas and WebGL are powerful fingerprinting methods. Extensions like CanvasBlocker (Firefox) can randomize or block these techniques, making your fingerprint inconsistent and harder to track.
Popular devices with common screen sizes (like 1920x1080) and standard configurations are harder to fingerprint because millions of people have identical setups.
In Firefox, type about:config in the address bar and set privacy.resistFingerprinting to true. This makes Firefox report generic values for many fingerprinting vectors.
