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Comment by ryacko | Hacker News Reader

Cookie + IP Address + Fingerprint + URL Referral + Social Media

It’s possible to be anonymous if you only log into websites with proper privacy policies, delete cookies & cache every day, and hide behind carrier NAT.

Adding a random font shouldn’t stop fingerprinting, people install new applications all the time. You make a lot of points, but ad tech can get around it.

Ideally ad corporations would be forced to delete records on people after 30 days.

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Requiring users to log in to websites is the most reliable to track them.

You are giving out a unique identifier that tracks you across devices.

> delete cookies & cache every day

I'm browsing everywhere in Safari's Private mode by default, 3 years no problems.

It is becoming increasingly difficult though. Google captchas everywhere. Authentication requesting 2 factor because it thinks it is a new browser. The web is progressively becoming unusable unless you are loaded with cookies and tracked. And the culprits are the likes of Amazon, Cloudflare, Google, etc. Not easy to move them.

Cloudflare somehow got better lately, I'm curious to know how :) Google search works fine and I'm not using other Google services. I see surprisingly few captchas. Yeah, I'm on VPN too, maybe they treat it differently.

Better at what?

Less captchas.

My current ideal is a VM, with Firefox multiprocess disabled, auto play disabled, various container extensions, Adblock, etc.

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