Hello everyone! I saw that disabling JavaScript was good to prevent fingerprinting. However, something’s holding me up from doing so: since only a minority of the Internet users block it, won’t it make me more easy to identify?

Even if it’s harder to load trackers or fingerprinting scripts, what if one manage to load? Will the fact that I disabled JavaScript make me more “unique” ?

Thanks in advance for any help!

  • bjornsno@programming.dev
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    18 hours ago

    Anyone who knows the first thing about web dev knows this is pointless. The scripts are minified and mangled so far it’s impossible to suss out what they do without hours and hours of deobfuscation per script, and it can often be hundreds of scripts. The only thing you can do is use blockers. They don’t try to understand what the script does, they operate by blocking known stuff and known bad origins.