Tails uBlock Origin settings

Privacy Questions
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Does Tails change any settings in uBO from the defaults? I want to install it in my TB, and want my browser to mimic Tails’s as much as possible.

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Simply installing uBO on TB will not make your fingerprint the same as Tails’ fingerprint. There is no way to mimic Tails’ fingerprint other than using Tails. The crowd you will blend in, fingerprint-wise, will be the people who have installed uBO on TB and not Tails.

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Hmm, why? Does Tails make any further changes to TB? Or does TB leak any OS-specific information…?

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Not that I know of.

Think of it this way. If you have two instances of TB installed, one is on a Macbook and the other is on a Windows device, they will not have the same browser fingerprint. This is not due to any leakage by TB, just that the underlying OS is different and has different characteristics.

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Thanks.

I expected it to be similar because I’m using Linux and not a completely different OS, but I found this forum post.

  • It seems that Tails does additional stuff to their web browser, and,

  • Fingerprinting can be done based on different versions of the systems’ libraries. To quote from the forum post:

Different versions of system packages (frozen on Tails, vs. possibly newer on Debian/Whonix) can be a problem as well. A couple years ago, a fingerprintable difference in font rendering was traced back to the installed version of libm (part of glibc).

After reading this, I wonder if my custom fonts.conf is also something that would give me away to trackers.

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