I don't think they are using browser uniqueness. I mean where would they get the fingerprint/email pairs from?
Everyone should use Firefox and install/do these:
- BetterPrivacy (removes supercookies)
- RefControl (to stop sending http referrers)
- User Agent Switcher (just in case)
- HTTPS-Everywhere
- Disable third party cookies in Preferences > Privacy
- Use a VPN
- Change Google for StartPage
- Use fake accounts (eg: youtube) and emails (dispostable.com) whenever possible. This is very easy if you have a password manager like LastPass, you don't have to remember many passwords.
With all this, you can surf the web quite safely, unless someone with your ID is creating a shared database of fingerprint/ID pairs. In that case you will also have to remove all your other plugins or use NoScript.
This is good advice, but I would ad Request Policy (if using Firefox) or Ghostery (if using Chrome; I would also suggest using Chromium instead of Chrome). I believe NoScript is also a must, but it does take some work to whitelist the sites you trust.
It took me a half hour to explain how to use NoScript to a non-technical person the other day. This stuff is not intuitive, and it will take time to educate our friends and family. Now that Facebook has made it acceptable for normal folks to be social on the web, we must be persistent in teaching these people to protect themselves.
Everyone should use Firefox and install/do these:
- BetterPrivacy (removes supercookies)
- RefControl (to stop sending http referrers)
- User Agent Switcher (just in case)
- HTTPS-Everywhere
- Disable third party cookies in Preferences > Privacy
- Use a VPN
- Change Google for StartPage
- Use fake accounts (eg: youtube) and emails (dispostable.com) whenever possible. This is very easy if you have a password manager like LastPass, you don't have to remember many passwords.
With all this, you can surf the web quite safely, unless someone with your ID is creating a shared database of fingerprint/ID pairs. In that case you will also have to remove all your other plugins or use NoScript.