The Internet is not a private place. Every time I connect to a website, advertising and beacons (noticeable and invisible), I think I will follow all the movements. They will bring the anonymous information they collected and write a profile that can be used to identify you when other trackers surfing the web. It’s pretty desolate.

Luckily, modern browsers are fighting back. There is definitely Better options than anything elseMost browsers have built -in personal information protection. If you know what you are doing, you can install a third -party booster to maximize these protection and maintain some of your personal information (not most) on the Internet.

If you are curious about how the browser accumulates in the competition, check it. Cover the track. I was surprised that I was shot and I found out that my super distributed setting was not as anonymous as I thought.

What is your track?

Cover Your Tracks is a project created by the non -profit digital rights group EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) and aims to educate the user how unique and how effective the browser is. This site pretends to load a series of trackers to the browser and the tracker can actually load it. If the protection is strong, more trackers are not loaded. If not, there are rich trackers.

This site loads the following fake trackers:

• https: //Trackersimulator.org/? Action = Tracking_tally &AD_URL= 123456

• https: //Eviltracker.net/? Action = Tracking_tally &Trace server= 123456

• https: //Do-NOT-Tracker.org/? Action = Tracking_tally & Random = 123456

The first link works like an advertisement that can occur on any website. If the browser blocks “advertising”, it passes the test. The second link pretends to be an invisible beacon (or tracker). When the browser blocks “beacon”, it passes. Finally, the third link is EFF does not track the policy. The browser passes through when the browser blocks the script of the domain. (According to the EFF, why do you turn off the script? Therefore, it is worth off of the advertisement to voluntarily reward you to voluntarily abstain Visitors.) Partial credit is awarded to a browser that can be loaded with advertisements or bicons.

Such a tracker is only effective if you have a sense of your profile. There is a browser originality there. Cover the track and look at the browser fingerprint and compare it with a recent scanned browser database. Then create an originality score. The more unique the fingerprints are, the more difficult to track you on the site. Anonymously collect tracks and collect browser data such as time zone, screen resolution, system language and system platform among other data points, compare them with other user browsers.

How did I score?

I don’t necessarily have a hardcore privacy lover, but I like to protect personal information anywhere online. So use safari whenever possible. You can activate all personal information settings. This includes hiding my IP address from trackers and websites and preventing cross -site tracking. I combine it with an advertising blocker (using Adguard, but I will like the UBLock Origin expansion) and a web experience without individuals or advertising.

The minimum steps seem to have paid money at least on your track. After handling the browser, the site concluded that it was strongly protected for the web tracking. The test confirmed the advertisements and invisible trackers that track my browser blocks. But the bad news is that my current setting does not protect me from the fingerprint. This is a practice to build a profile so that the tracker can easily identify you through the web. Your tracks are like a painful thumb on the Internet, because my browser has a unique fingerprint among over 250,000 browsers tested over the last 45 days. My browser block can’t see me, but the tracker that my browser can miss my The browser reads the article or is watching the video.

I was actually surprised at this. Safari has “advanced tracking and fingerprint protection,” which is possible for all browsing. I think your track has a completely unique browser profile.

When I tried to test it in the Firefox browser (I used all the personal information protection functions to combine it with the origin of Ublock and stored it for fingerprint tests. Unlike Safari, my Firefox browser is almost unique. This means that the Firefox browser is twice as anonymous with my Safari browser.

How to avoid fingerprints on the web?

So the tracker that breaks through my browser defense can see me completely. Not good. Where are you going here?

Unfortunately this is hard. Fingerprints are very difficult to avoid. This is because the more trackers, the worse the web. As the EFF explainsIt is a little paradox, but after a certain point of time, it stops blocking the tracker blocking to track and begins to block the elements of the website. Disabling JavaScript can stop the website tracking you, but it may not be used at all. Conversely, too much protection can actually identify you by mistake.

One way is completely closed on the web, but according to the EFF, the simplest way to attack fingerprints includes:

• The browser has several advanced anti -prevention functions, so use tor in browsing

• Use hardcore personal information expansion (EFF is a good idea to cut off personal information protection and connection.

According to that, I tried to test using the “safer” personal information setting and the same unique browser score as Safari. Therefore, I made the settings a “safest” setting. Above all, all websites disable JavaScript. I tried to run the test again and broke the website. Perhaps you have to give up some privacy to use the Internet.