How unique is your browser?
https://browserprint.info/
http://panopticlick.eff.org/
Could you be being tracked across websites?
4chan uses Google analytics and that's known to track people using cookies and fingerprinting techniques.
Even if you block analytics tracking could be hidden in CAPTCHA code or 4chan GUI code.
Would you want your friends knowing you browse 4chan? Would you want a potential employer knowing?
Studies have shown that Google can track you across nearly 80% of the top 100 million sites.
They're using advanced fingerprinting techniques that nobody has built defenses for yet.
Things you can do:
Use Tor or a VPN.
Use the Tor Browser Bundle (it's one of the few browsers that tries to defend against fingerprinting attacks).
Use a different browser for your social media botnet shit and your shitposting.
Block tracker scripts (Privacy Badger / NoScript / uMatrix)
Panopticlick is fucking garbage now. Unblocking sites that say they honor Do Not Track is a terrible idea, and Panopticlick has no way to tell if I'm scrambling my fingerprint for each site every few minutes (which I am)
>>55167659
Scrambling your fingerprint only works if you never use the same fingerprint on 2 different websites.
>>55167933
why is that? If you scramble your fingerprint for a certain site then that site has fingerprint A. If you visit with fingerprint B wouldnt the site only have fingerprint B. or am i thinking about this all wrong
>>55168070
That might be true on 4chan, but if you've got a tab open to YouTube or Facebook they'll know both fingerprint A & B and link them together.
>>55168099
I worded this poorly.
It's because you're logged in to the site they're able to associate fingerprint A with fingerprint B.
It's nearly impossible to protect yourself against fingerprinting since there's just too much information that can be obtained. Even disabling things to prevent it from leaking information will create an unique fingerprint.
The only reasonable way to counter fingerprinting is to compile a list of all fingerprinting vectors and then create an add-on that spoofs random but valid data for these on a per-session basis, with a whitelist for a few reasons such as
>changing it often might look suspicious to Facebook, your email service etc.
>logging in somewhere basically makes you trackable across their domain anyway so why bother feeding the website fake information
>if your fake fingerprint is used on both facebook and another website they can be connected
I stopped worrying about it as I use a VPN at all times now. Good luck tracking and targeting your advertising at a server rack halfway across the world, kikes.
>>55168915
How's a VPN going to stop you from being tracked based on fingerprint or cookies?
>>55168944
It isn't, dumbass. The point is that it doesn't matter once your physical location is no longer linked to that data.
>>55169360
But nobody gives two shits about your physical location.
What they want to do is build a profile on you that they can sell to advertisers.
They don't even need your real name, but that is a bonus
>>55167426
Who cares? This isn't the 1950's with its white Christian male oppression of even white Christian males.
>Nobody can know I browse porn!
Everybody knows you browse porn. Get over it.
>>55169546
They could also sell that data to your potential employer so they can check if hiring you is a bad idea. Or in the case of /g/, they could be the employer themselves.
Once they can connect your fingerprint to your facebook or anything else with your real name, it's game over.
>>55169850
Anon, a lot of people wouldn't hire someone from 4chan.
We're all misogynistic terrorist cyberbullies.
