How is browsing from a virtual machine/virtual box preventing fingerprinting or tracking?

Does it increase your internet security in terms of privacy/tracking/fingerprinting if you are surfing with your web browser in a virtual machine environment (virtual box + VPN) instead of surfing from your normal windows op… Continue reading How is browsing from a virtual machine/virtual box preventing fingerprinting or tracking?

Does photo fingerprinting (using metadata) allow to search all photos on internet made by the same user (privacy issue)?

Browser fingerprinting is well-known: since a client gives many HTTP attributes/Javascript attributes during a website visit, the probability that two users have the same exact values for all this parameters is very low, and … Continue reading Does photo fingerprinting (using metadata) allow to search all photos on internet made by the same user (privacy issue)?

Why do some web servers still provide information on vendor and version in the HTTP response headers

I think in the security field it is a well-known fact that its not a good idea to let the web server vendor (e.g. Apache) and the version be visible to the outside as this can be used to launch targeted attacks against a spec… Continue reading Why do some web servers still provide information on vendor and version in the HTTP response headers

Why are fingerprinting defenders not able to detect any for instagram? [closed]

I installed the following extensions:

https://mybrowseraddon.com/audiocontext-defender.html
https://mybrowseraddon.com/canvas-defender.html
https://mybrowseraddon.com/font-defender.html
https://mybrowseraddon.com/webgl-defe… Continue reading Why are fingerprinting defenders not able to detect any for instagram? [closed]