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• @AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2026-06-20 06:27

  There’s no way to “block” it, as it’s components that are inherent to how the web works. If you have a screen, it has a size, and if you go to a website, it can tell what size it is, for example. However, you can obfuscate or normalize some things. Your best bet would be using something like the Tor browser (or Mullvad browser if you also use Mullvad VPN and don’t want to deal with all the baggage the Tor network has), since it can limit your screen size so EVERYONE using the Tor browser has the exact same size “screen” to any website you visit, thus eliminating that as a data point, and all the Tor browsers are also running the same browser engine, going through the same overall network, etc: https://support.torproject.org/tor-browser/features/fingerprinting-protections/ But at the end of the day, there’s no way to reliably block all of it. The internet just relies on a lot of different things, and even a couple consistent data points can identify you. Hell, even using a VPN identifies you as “person using a VPN” vs just “person using the internet without a VPN”, which is one more data point that could be correlated with the others.

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