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executesorder66 on Sept 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Browser Fingerprinting

On Chrome you can use this[0] user-agent spoofer(one example) It will randomize your user agent for each session, thus changing your fingerprint.

I'm sure there are various other extensions that do similar things that randomize the parameters of whatever is used to fingerprint you.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/random-user-agent/...

adrr on Sept 8, 2016 [–]

That will set off some fraud detection on sites as there will be mismatch between user agent and the browser being used. You can easily profile the DOM and Javascript features to figure out what browser a person is using.

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