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    Prevent browser fingerprinting

    May 21, 2024 4 minutes

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    HAVE YOU NOTICED that no matter how many times you up your browser’s security level, decline cookies, and click ‘Do Not Track’, it feels like websites still know your browsing habits?

    Browser fingerprinting is a way of identifying you through the information your browser sends when it visits a web page. Some of this information is contained in the ‘User-Agent’ header, which gives the site basic information about your browser version, operating system, language, time zone, and so on. This can be combined with other data to form a unique ‘fingerprint’.

    This is a very serious risk for your privacy, as unlike your browsing history, fingerprints are stored on remote

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