<story><title>Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)</title><url>https://robinlinus.github.io/socialmedia-leak/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zerognowl</author><text>This is why I use &amp;#x27;browser isolation&amp;#x27;, which is a way to separate different types of surfing activity into different buckets. Currently the best way to do this in Firefox is to create multiple profiles, or in Chrome, you can simply add a different user&amp;#x2F;persona.&lt;p&gt;Having one profile, or even an entire dedicated browser just for Twitter&amp;#x2F;FB ensures the login is not spilled over into other sites. If you&amp;#x27;re surfing the web heavily, I would recommend spawning a new private window so cookies, and other artefacts are not bleeding into your session.&lt;p&gt;It sounds like common sense, but many people have cookies and login information persisting for years at a time in their browsing sessions. The Mozilla Firefox team are planning to introduce a feature which makes compartmented surfing sessions a lot more user-friendly by separating sessions into tabs. Currently, the &amp;#x27;profiles&amp;#x27; feature of Firefox is not user friendly and requires a bit of tinkering with the filesystem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Bartweiss</author><text>At risk of being depressing, it&amp;#x27;s worth knowing that a dedicated profiler can reconcile accounts across all of the protections you&amp;#x27;ve mentioned - not just as a targeted attack, but algorithmically.&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of fingerprinting tricks which transcend cookie restrictions and user profiles.  The battery percent&amp;#x2F;value one will reconcile all accounts on one device (as will several other like fonts). If you log into one bucket on multiple devices, it becomes possible to traverse devices and reconcile one-device profiles via the shared profile.  If I were truly paranoid, I would only trust &amp;quot;separation&amp;quot; if it involved a clean account on a clean device on a clean network.&lt;p&gt;None of which is to say that you shouldn&amp;#x27;t do this!  I do lots of privacy things which aren&amp;#x27;t bulletproof, and I think other people should also.  Fighting common tracking structures is still progress, and tools like bucketing and Privacy Badger are great ways to do this.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just also worth noting that dedicated profiling will break all but the most pathological defensive measures.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)</title><url>https://robinlinus.github.io/socialmedia-leak/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zerognowl</author><text>This is why I use &amp;#x27;browser isolation&amp;#x27;, which is a way to separate different types of surfing activity into different buckets. Currently the best way to do this in Firefox is to create multiple profiles, or in Chrome, you can simply add a different user&amp;#x2F;persona.&lt;p&gt;Having one profile, or even an entire dedicated browser just for Twitter&amp;#x2F;FB ensures the login is not spilled over into other sites. If you&amp;#x27;re surfing the web heavily, I would recommend spawning a new private window so cookies, and other artefacts are not bleeding into your session.&lt;p&gt;It sounds like common sense, but many people have cookies and login information persisting for years at a time in their browsing sessions. The Mozilla Firefox team are planning to introduce a feature which makes compartmented surfing sessions a lot more user-friendly by separating sessions into tabs. Currently, the &amp;#x27;profiles&amp;#x27; feature of Firefox is not user friendly and requires a bit of tinkering with the filesystem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daleharvey</author><text>Its only in testing right now, but Firefox Nightly has &amp;quot;Containers&amp;quot; so you can exactly have different &amp;quot;buckets&amp;quot; for different types of browsing - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;Security&amp;#x2F;Contextual_Identity_Project&amp;#x2F;Containers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;Security&amp;#x2F;Contextual_Identity_Projec...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>