D•Scribe
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works to Privacy@lemmy.ml ·
edit-2
5 months ago

What is the lowest score you have achieved on EFF Cover Your Tracks?

sh.itjust.works

message-square
67
fedilink
169

What is the lowest score you have achieved on EFF Cover Your Tracks?

sh.itjust.works

LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works to Privacy@lemmy.ml ·
edit-2
5 months ago
message-square
67
fedilink

On Librewolf i got 16.48 bits of information, on TOR browser 10.32 bits, but on Tails I managed to get only 9.3 bits.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

  • kusivittula@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    21
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    5 months ago

    its ok if your fingerprint changes on every browser startup

    • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      5 months ago

      …as long as you are blocking tracking cookies, and aren’t on a session with a website that’s tracking you.

      Otherwise, you just have a nice unique hash in your cookies. A password manager could help here.

      • broken_chatbot@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        5 months ago

        A password manager? Could you explain why?

        • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          5 months ago

          Cookies and other ways of keeping a session upright are kept by the browser. So unless you’re mad enough to copy cookies between devices, they prove you’re on the same device.

          Using a password every time you log in, and letting your browser wipe everything on shutdown does not show websites wether you’re on yhe same or another device.

          • Mad A. Argon :qurio:@is-a.cat
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            5 months ago

            @Boomkop3 @broken_chatbot Do you mean not keeping browser history actually makes big difference? I do that for few years but wasn’t sure how much it really helped.

            • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              5 months ago

              That does not matter, cookies and other local web storage can though

              • Mad A. Argon :qurio:@is-a.cat
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                0
                ·
                5 months ago

                @Boomkop3 I mean full erase on shutdown, like in private window.

                • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  5 months ago

                  That includes that stuff, yep.

Privacy@lemmy.ml

privacy@lemmy.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !privacy@lemmy.ml

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

  • Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
  • Don’t promote proprietary software
  • Try to keep things on topic
  • If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
  • Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
  • Be nice :)

Related communities

  • Lemmy.ml libre_culture
  • Lemmy.ml privatelife
  • Lemmy.ml DeGoogle
  • Lemmy.ca privacy

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 724 users / day
  • 3.47K users / week
  • 6.8K users / month
  • 16.3K users / 6 months
  • 12 local subscribers
  • 37.7K subscribers
  • 2.21K Posts
  • 49.1K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • k_o_t@lemmy.ml
  • tmpod@lemmy.pt
  • Yayannick@lemmy.ml
  • ranok@sopuli.xyz
  • UI: unknown version
  • BE: 0.19.9
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org