The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has now launched Panopticlick 3.0, the new version of its browser privacy auditor. The update adds tests for additional trackers including ones from the "Acceptable Ads" program. That is on top of the original function of browser fingerprinting, which is pattern of visible data such as web headers, canvas attributes, cookies, scripts, and other attributes.
Check panopticlick.eff.org to test how well your own browser is or isn't protecting you.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Thursday November 30 2017, @12:24PM (3 children)
you have to enable javascript, which I do for very few sites.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @04:23PM (2 children)
No you don't. It redirects me to a bunch of "blah.tld/something-something-nojs", but if I click "allow" for all redirects, it works.
I run the full paranoia suite of NoScript, AdBlock, RequestPolicy, Ghostery, and User Agent spoofing. All but four of the tests give a "no javascript" result.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @05:34PM (1 child)
You can swap out 4 of those with uMatrix. But if you are going to keep Adblock and Ghostery, at least turn off acceptable ads and Ghostery's tracking.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 01 2017, @12:41AM
> You can swap out 4 of those with uMatrix.
Yeah, I know. I've been using these for so long, I'm reluctant to swap.
> But if you are going to keep Adblock and Ghostery, at least turn off acceptable ads and Ghostery's tracking.
It wouldn't be full paranoia if I left those on :)