Well, for most sites, I don't give a shit about user comments, so I block them (using uMatrix), including cancers such as Disqus. Just as for most other 3rd party service. On top of that, I contain sites I regularly use or that I login to into different containers inside Firefox.
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It's one example. You've also clearly given yourself a very unique fingerprint with extensions and your specific configuration and usage of them. The way you describe how you use the browser doesn't sound like a way that gives you the privacy that you're seeking. It stands out.
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My fingerprint probably looks more like "curl trying to imitate current Firefox on Windows" than "the guy who googled 'big tits porn' yesterday". And I make sure that fingerprint ends up at as little different parties as possible.
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Third parties receiving the data and providing code aren't limited to the ones with a presence in the web site's client-side code. For example, with the New York Times, you can happily block Google's client-side assets, but how are you going to block the server-side integration?
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NYT will end up in a container where all referrers are faked, cookies and DOM storage cleared after I close the tab, 1st party isolation in Firefox is enabled, canvas randomized, etc pp.
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So, as I said, you made yourself stand out from the crowd as incredibly odd and unique to the point that you are guaranteed to receive special attention. I'm sure you also see a lot of extra captchas, etc. across the web. You stand out. You're suspicious. It's a unique signature.
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I certainly do thing that first party isolation should be the default approach in every browser, but I'm not telling people to enable it on their own as a way to improve their privacy, especially with it hidden away. Look back at my original post on Reddit and the thread here.
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Firefox does actually block lots of shit by default in Privacy Mode (so "normal" users using privacy mode will generate noise I can hide in), and Firefox has introduced GUI to enable tracker blocking in recent versions, thus generating even more noise for me to hide in.
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That's not noise, and you aren't hiding in it. I don't know what you're talking about. I'll also refer back to my original post and thread again. I already went through enumerating badness, and Firefox is deliberately only doing a very cautious opportunistic form of blocking.
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I don't find it an interesting conversation and would rather not continue. You don't seem to understand what I've been saying, and you aren't disagreeing with it, but rather bringing up non-sequitur points / tangents. It's not what I want to talk about.
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All I have to say is that the Tor Browser approach is the one everyone else should emulate instead of messing around with privacy theatre and enumerating badness. I never said enumerating badness was useless, just unworkable as a solution. If you disagree, that's your problem.