Your Weekly Privacy & Security Wins 🏆 (Week 64 - Sep 5 2025)

I might as well give a tip or two for those using web browsers, as I personally do this myself.

If one were to be using only one browser for everything, unless they use Multi-Account Containers and something like Proton’s SimpleLogin, they’re probably uninformed about the fingerprinting that’s happening right under their noses, as Henry proves here (Yes, it’s Invidious, because I want to protect your privacy, though I don’t maintain the instance I placed in).

Not to worry, though, as there are ways to fight said fingerprinting JS slop. One way is using something called browser compartmentalization, which is not as complicated as it sounds some, but very descriptive.

To explain this a bit, it’s a concept where you use one browser for one specific purpose. For example, I use only one browser specifically for Google logins (that being Zen browser in this case), and another for my normal browsing and logged-in accounts (I like Waterfox for that in particular). However, since I seemingly ran out of Firefox-based browsers that were available (that weren’t the likes of Pale Moon), I had to make a different profile for my former editor on one browser for Fediverse shenanigans (he uses Librewolf, and so do I, for this purpose alone). I don’t use the Fediverse necessarily, but a different protocol that isn’t AT (because BlueSky is sorta decentralized, but is centralized because of the OFCOM stuff in the UK).

Of course, you’ll need to harden your browsers to the nines, and use good quality plugins that won’t be compromised (I’d recommend uBO (uBlock Origin for those not in the know), Privacy Possum (Privacy Badger fork), LocalCDN (Decentaleyes fork), LibRedirect, SimpleLogin and ClearURL’s as the extensions for your primary browser). I harden all the Firefox-based browsers I use this way, with some slight extension variations depending on what I want to use that browser for.

It will be a win for most, as was a win for me when I went ahead and started compartmentalizing quite a while ago (I forgot when I even started it, since I’m used to it by now).

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