I recently tried to clean up my digital life. I switched to Linux and switched to GrapheneOS and made more use of my proton subscription to replace google. But I have a few questions :

I tried https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ on Librewolf on my PC and Vanadium on my phone and it say I have a nearly unique fingerprint. Is the benefit of using a privacy focused browser neglected by the low userbase and unique fingerprint ?

I did not have a great digital hygiene before so I have a google account, meta… How do I clean this up ? Are services like Incogni any good or is it just marketing ?

Finally I wanted to use tails with persistent storage to use as a live system if I ever need to use a PC that is not my own to connect to my accounts. However, I don’t want the ISP to know I use Tor. I see it as a big “I have something to hide” flag for the ISP. But my understanding is if I install a VPN on tails it will be Tor over VPN (bad if I understand correctly) instead of VPN over Tor. Should I use something else than tails since I only want/need always on VPN with kill switch.

Thanks a lot for your help. I want to say the journey is much easier than what I anticipated. The hardest part is making people switch around me. The lobbying has started.

  • ken@discuss.tchncs.de
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    15 hours ago

    LibreWolf, on the other hand, works by spoofing a different fingerprint every session.

    Is that true? I think it’s not that much of a fundamental difference in strategy as you say. While LW (like MB) does randomization of e.g. WebGL and Canvas fingerprints, in general other fingerprintables are also kept static. From my perspective it’s more a difference in degrees than direction. Have you checked how your font fingerprint persist?

    I believe both Mullvad Browser and LibreWolf come with uBlockOrigin pre-installed

    Not exactly. LW comes without the addon but is configured to download and install uBlock Origin from addons.mozilla.org the very first thing it does. This is in contrast with Mullvad Browser (which does bundle the addon) and Konform Browser (which will load locally installed system uBO from known path if installed from distribution package manager).

    If you’re looking for something to use with actual accounts (like banking), use hardened Firefox (with arkenfox) or a hardened chromium browser.

    Konform Browser is intended to support that use-case and also worthy for consideration. Would be curious to hear if you agree or how you think it falls short!