Are you ready for web Fingerprinting ?

Well we did not know about it either until we saw a magazine article.

Seems Google will from the 16th of this month allow its advertisers to gain more info about you everytime you browse their sites using Fingerprinting, a much more info grabbing action than Cookies were.

You can read about it in this Information Commisioners Office link and elsewhere.

The computer magazines say you can minimise the effect by using browsers offering a level of protection like, Firefox , Brave and Tor as clearly Googles own Chrome browser has no such protection.

Our response to Google’s policy change on fingerprinting

 

What if you used the private browser

 

My fingerprint never seems to work, its a PITA.

 

Do you mean the Private Incognito Windows of Chrome ?

If so, seems self defeating from Googles Fingerprinting perspective.

The magazine article gave this link where you can test how effective your Browser is at blocking such actions. Tried it with two of the mentioned browsers and it reported strong protection.
( your screen may blip a few times while it tests)

Cover Your Tracks




Like most things google, we try to get away from it where possible, they collect masses of data and read our emails, why should we let them do that ?

 

We have a Samsung phone these days, think its the later model of the one you got the other year.
Not sure if yours can do it, but we can use a side button as a fingerprint sensor to unlock the phone rather than keying in a Pin number, can be quiet handy at times.

 

Yes mine is the same but it never works, I have all these odd lines on the ends of my fingers and I think they confuse it, I have to use the pin no all the time.

 

I don't like the sound of that at all - thanks for sharing!

This is my result -


I use Bitdefender for AV etc.
Is there anything else I should use to gain additional protection?

I'd have thought that the EU & UK would be taking action, but this is the first I've heard of it.

 

I always deny cookies and I've got adblockers, but I am told I have no protection against tracking. What can I do about it ?

Most of my emails to family and friends are in Welsh, would they be able to understand them ?

 

Only if your family and friends speak Welsh

sorry....

 

I find startpage a good search engine, which doesn't collect data like Google does.
It's very very rare these days that I'll use Google to search for anything.

 

Why does Muskrat always look as if he has a couple of gob stoppers stuffed inside his cheeks?

 

Someone once told me about Duck Go , is that any good please, I may use it if it's better than google. I'm always afraid of things I don't know about.