Be less identifiable on the internet

[Renk]

The EFF's Panopticlick (https://panopticlick.eff.org/) service can show you the fingerprint of your browser, and evaluate how unique you are on the internet. For privacy concerned people, the less unique you are, the best it is. Notice that the panopticlick's test is biased, because only privacy concerned (and maybe a little paranoid) people use it, so that this service don't exactly give a measure of how unique your browser's fingerprint is amongst all browsers, but more precisely how unique your browser is amongst browsers used by privacy concerned people.


For Firefox users, here are some addons smoothing the indentifying infos your browser leaves on the internet: , so diminishing your browser's fingerprint:

1) NoScript (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/?src=cb-dl-mostpopular) fully activated (but be aware that as soon as you allow scripts on a site, your fingerprint can sharply raise)

2) TorButton (https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/)

3) JondoFox (https://anonymous-proxy-servers.net/en/jondofox.html) (it already contains NoScript).

4) FireGloves (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firegloves/?src=cb-dl-recentlyadded) Almost as efficient than Torbutton + Noscript, but when used you can be unable to sign in some web services susch as webmail.

5) Blender (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blender-1/?src=search) (less radical, but less effective than Noscript or FireGloves).

6) Blend In (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blend-in/?src=search) (I just discovered this addon and don't yet have used it ; As Blender it seems to be less radical but less effective than NS and FireGloves).


Edit: An interesting paper about fingerprinting:
https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf

[anon]

NoScript is a must-have. JonDoFox's functionality is provided by an extension you can actually copy from their bundle and use on any Firefox install. It will retain some branding/logos but you can edit the XPI file to fix that. I've talked with its developer via e-mail, and he said the team was working on a fork of Firefox that contains all security features built-in the code, instead of being provided by an addon.


4) FireGloves (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firegloves/?src=cb-dl-recentlyadded) Almost efficient than Torbutton + Noscript, but when used you can be unable to sign in some web services susch as webmail.

This looked good because it could edit the screen size, but you have to either use private mode or enable it prior to visiting each site.


5) Blender (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blender-1/?src=search) (less radical, but less effective as Noscript or FireGloves).

6) Blend In (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blend-in/?src=search) (I just discovered this addon and don't yet have used it ; As Blender it seems to be less radical but less effective than NS and FireGloves).

A quick look at the XPI says these do nothing you can't do with JonDoFox (which also has updated SafeCache and authentication-cookie protection), so I'd use that instead.

I haven't tried Torbutton yet, although it seems to have many interesting features.