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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Cover Your Tracks: Test how well your browser protect you from tracking: (coveryourtracks.eff.org)

submitted 1 year ago by auf@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This is an EFF project that allows you to understand how easy it is to identify and track your browser based on how it appears to websites. Anonymous data will be collected through this site.

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[–] downpunxx@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

thanks for the tip, i'm already on firefox, but when run it said i had "some protection" for both blocking tracking ads, and blocking invisible trackers, added privacy badgers after reading your post, because why not, and now it says YES for both

17.54 bits of identifying information tho :0