Luckily, modern browsers are fighting back. While there are certainly better options than others, most browsers have privacy protections built in. If you know what you're doing, you can max out these protections and install some third-party boosters to retain some (if not most) of your privacy across the internet.
Cover Your Tracks is a project created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit digital rights group, and aims to educate users on two key metrics: how unique their browser is, and how effective their tracker blockers are. The site pretends to load a series of trackers on your browser, and measures which trackers are actually able to load. If your protections are strong, more trackers will fail to load. If they're not, well, trackers galore.
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Those trackers are only effective if they have a sense of the profile they're following. That's where browser uniqueness comes in: Cover Your Tracks takes a look at your browser fingerprint and compares it against its database of recently scanned browsers. It then generates a uniqueness score—the more unique your fingerprint, the more difficult it is to track you across sites. Cover Your Tracks anonymously collects and stores browser data like your timezone, screen resolution, system language, and system platform, among other data points, to compare against other users' browsers.
How did I score?
Those minimal steps do appear to have paid off—at least according to Cover Your Tracks. After processing my browser, the site concluded I have strong protection against web tracking. The tests confirmed my browser blocks tracking ads and invisible trackers, which is reassuring. The bad news, though, is that my current setup isn't protecting me against fingerprinting—a practice where trackers build a profile to make it easier to identify you across the web. Cover Your Tracks said my browser had a unique fingerprint among the more than 250,000 browsers they had tested over the past 45 days, which means I stick out like a sore thumb on the internet. While the trackers my browser blocks won't be able to see me, the ones my browser misses will, and they'll know it's my browser reading that article or watching that video.
When I tried the test in my Firefox browser—with all of its privacy protections enabled, coupled with uBlock Origin—it scored the same, save for the fingerprinting test. Unlike Safari, my Firefox browser is nearly unique: one in 125,883 browsers have the same fingerprint as mine, which, to my eyes, means my Firefox browser is twice as anonymous as my Safari browser, though that isn't saying all that much.
How can you avoid fingerprinting on the web?
Unfortunately, this is tough. Fingerprinting is pretty difficult to avoid, because the more trackers you disable, the worse the web becomes. As the EFF explains, it's a bit of a paradox, but after a certain point, you stop blocking the trackers that exist to track you, and you start to block elements that make websites work. If you disable JavaScript, you might stop a website from tracking you, but you might not be able to use it at all. On the flip side, using too many protections may actually inadvertently identify you, as trackers and sites see that you're the only one constantly blocking everything all of the time.
Using Tor for your browsing, as the browser has a number of advanced anti-tracking features
That all said, I did attempt the test using Tor with "Safer" privacy settings enabled, and earned the same unique browser score I did with Safari. So, I cranked up the settings to "Safest," which, among other things, disables JavaScript on all websites. I tried to run the test again, and broke the website. Perhaps you really do need to give up a little privacy in order to use the internet at all.
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