Help with VPN/Tor and fingerprinting

Privacy Questions
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Hello everyone. I need your help with a problem I’ve been having for a while: I’m having a hell of a time integrating anti-fingerprinting methods and using a VPN/Tor into my everyday life.

I’m someone who’s already made a lot of changes to improve my privacy, but there are still these two things that I’m desperately unable to integrate for several reasons:

  • VPN and Tor bring up captchas all the time and that drives me crazy.
  • The problem of compromised Tor exit nodes freaks me out, so I don’t feel like using Tor to connect to my accounts, for example.
  • if I understand correctly, the fight against fingerprinting includes using as few browser extensions as possible (Tor even advises against using uBlock, which is unthinkable for me). I have to use several extensions (my password manager, ublock and firefox container for the “core 3” ones I can’t delete because of convenience reasons), how can I use them without making me identifiable ? Are there any ways to even fight against a type of profiling no longer based on cookies/tags/tracking pixels (all of which can be mitigated) but on the hardware characteristics of my PC, my screen and my browser?

Thank you in advance !

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It seems to me that your threat model is somewhat confuse. You should not connect to your accounts over Tor, no use to identify yourself on an anonymous network.

For the casual surfing I think you should better be using mullvad browser on a VPN which has also uBlock integration.

To fight fingerprinting effectively compartmentalization is key.

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Thank you for your answer. Does arkenfox randomizes screen resolution and fonts ?

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I already use a somewhat compartmentalized browser with Firefox container qnd i will try to implement arkenfox’s user.js also. My threat model is to reduce fingerprinting and profiling by data brokers and companies