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Think you’re anonymous online? A third of popular websites are ‘fingerprinting’ you.
Our latest privacy experiment tested sites for an invisible form of online tracking that you can’t easily avoid.
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Which is why you use a bunch of firefox extensions that stops some of those shenanigans. Here's a selection of interesting ones.
- Ad Nauseum
- Cookie AutoDelete
- F.B Purity (if you ever want to visit facebook and even if you don't use facebook, it still tracks you visiting other websites.
- Facebook Container (ditto)
- Ghostery
- No Coin - Block miners on the web
- Privacy Badger
- TrackMeNot
- uMatrix
- uBlock Origin
- Remove/Crop-to Selection
Another shenanigan to stop is stupid overlays every time you go on most web pages. Behind The Overlay It does not remember your choice,but still, you can read the content.
I use "kill sticky" for that mostly. Do you mean "behind the overlay"? I might give it a try.
Yeah.I corrected my mishap. It's really nice and easy to use.