Install Noscript. Torbutton helps, but for those who don't want to use the outdated tor browser bundle you can also try Blender (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/blender-1/).

What we really need is a modified ``privacy'' build of FF that reports spoofed js/css data (screen res etc), but I'm not skilled enough in web stuff to make that.

The only truly effective way is to use an addon like NoScript (Firefox) or NotScripts / ScriptNo (Chrome).

Other addons may prevent certain leakages, but definitely not all.

Plus a VPN and/or Tor, otherwise your IP alone dooms you.

For me, the list of installed plugins is by far the most unique bit of information, so just blocking that would be helpful.

Go here => https://stopfingerprinting.inria.fr/ Chrome + Firefox add-on.

Upvoted you even so it doesn't bring a solution. They clearly state For the moment, there is no protection from fingerprinting.

This seems just a wrong statement. If Firefox and Chrome are open source there must be a way to modify the fingerprint. Even if it comes in form of some "pre-loader" that blocks the sending of one fingerprint and overwrites it with another.

My suspicion is that sites coming across as super sneaky (e.g. LinkedIn) are actually using browser identification / fingerprinting to make their otherwise impossible suggestions.

That doesn't seem to actually block anything? It just says it sends them your data for analyzing?

Thanks!

As a side note, I've been impressed with French academia lately. Between INRIA and IRCAM, I see a lot of quite practical stuff that I like coming from there.

Glad to help. Yes so do I, I've seen a lot of INRIA projects that stunned me. I didn't know about CCRMA, would you mind sharing some stuff you found over there?

Hah sorry, I edited my comment before you replied, but I got a brain mix-up between the international computer-music centers' acronyms: CCRMA is an American one at Stanford, but I meant IRCAM, the French one at Centre Pompidou. The third of the "big three" is CNMAT at UC-Berkeley. All are 5-letter acronyms, so it is a bit easy to confuse...

It will not be very interesting if you don't care about computer music, but IRCAM has an ethos of producing many projects in that area. For example, the Max system that later became Max/MSP (and later the open-source version, Pd) was originally an IRCAM project. They also have a Common Lisp based visual-score system (http://repmus.ircam.fr/openmusic/home), a system for data-based resynthesis using musical corpora (http://imtr.ircam.fr/imtr/CataRT), and a number of other things, including many projects more on the music/composition side.

I disabled all of my plugins, and I'm still unique.