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I just disable JS by default and whitelist the (very few, currently) sites that absolutely need it.

That probably means I share the same fingerprint as everyone else using the same browser with JS disabled.



User-Agent still changes, and since people enable it for various sites, you can try to load it from different domains and see what is blocked/loaded.


Yeah, but that Adobe Acrobat version is quite old, and that's an interesting Wacom tablet you got there...


That approach used to work but so many sites now are utterly reliant on jquery and other bulk.

The new trend is not only needed javascript but localstorage.

I cannot believe the sheer number of sites I have to use now that will not function without localstorage enabled.


> very few, currently

I've tried disabling JS and all sites were completely broken and resulted in a horrible experience. I guess though if you set your bar very low few sites really need it.


Easy enough to check - https://panopticlick.eff.org/


CSS media queries reveal your fonts and screen dimensions. Maybe someone could tie that in with lazily loaded images with unique IDs, thereby tracking you. It would be nice if people could disable media queries, as they're annoying anyway sometimes. You can disable fonts, at least in firefox.


> I share the same fingerprint as everyone else using the same browser with JS disabled

That's not a lot of people who have JS disabled.




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