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• Mullvad Browser and Tor Browser have unique-per-computer persistent IDs on fingerprint.com

  I have been testing Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser using fingerprint.com. I get unique persistent identifiers that are unique per machine and persist over rebooting sessions. Javascript was on during this test. This could be very dangerous to people using Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser. For example, if someone visits Rainbow Railroad, an organization for leaving repressive countries with hostile LGBT policies, and then watches a video about the organization on YouTube, and then also does s...

• Post #457497

  Github has made it impossible to create an account when using a VPN and a privacy browser with fully spoofed hardware identifiers. (Use Firefox or Firefox-based Privacy Browser, VPN, install Canvasblocker to test this.) I create an account with Google or Apple (both requiring hardware identifiers and numbers and birthdates) or I can use an email. When I use an email, it comes back with this horrible test, and even if I do it completely correctly, it tells me after I didn’t do the test right, gas...

• Post #409628

  (Don’t click that before reading more.) If you check out Upsolve.org because you are considering bankruptcy due to any sort of reason, there is a tool to help you evaluate whether bankruptcy is appropriate at my.upsolve.org/bankruptcy-screener. Bankruptcy is a difficult choice. Sometimes people pursue it as a result of medical debt or other extremely personal reasons. Upsolve.org bills itself as an organization that help the poor. Unlike a lawyer’s office, it can help people without charging...