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This quote below from Daniel Micay of GrapheneOS is fire,

"You talk about privacy in general but then talk specifically about fingerprinting which is not something any mainstream browser has meaningful defenses against, including Firefox. Even for the Tor browser it hardly accomplishes much with JavaScript enabled. I have fingerprinting code that works great with it and bypasses their weak attempts at mitigating it. You're proving the case for why doing something is not always better than nothing. If what is done isn't meaningful, which it really isn't, then people are given a false sense of security / privacy which ends up causing them more harm than if they acted as if that non-working defense didn't exist. Define an actual threat model and explain what the defenses are supposed to mitigate. In reality, it's ineffective, and there's a reason it's not exposed in the UI. Firefox has an almost entirely bogus tracking protection feature exposed in the UI which is fundamentally broken from the design and entire concept behind it, so there's a pretty low bar, and yet these features don't meet it."

And that's why HydraVeil exists. Sources/info here:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/web-browsers-become-the-new-os/and-the-program-is-tyranny.html
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Stephan Rinbaum · 47w
Hear hear. Another great argument for the idea of salting data rather than trying to defend it from scrutiny. Every once in a while, shop for women's clothes. Order a movie ticket in Burundi. Do a deep dive into outboard motors. If you are foolish enough to give personal information online, falsify ...
Scoundrel · 47w
This is 100% true! But pay attention to the concession for Tor: "with Javascript enabled". This is a public service announcement, if you want to ACTUALLY prevent browser profiling then use Mullvad and Tor in their safest mode so that Javascript is disabled! These browsers were NOT meant to be run w...
Islamic Audiobooks Central · 47w
Is HydraVeil going to be packaged as a flatpak?
VidarReturns · 46w
HydraVeil is pretty awesome
nostrich · 44w
False security is worse than none , like GPS on a sinking yacht. https://www.yachttrading.com/