Normal anti-fingerprinting measures aren’t effective against companies with lots of resources. Does setting the security level to “safest” actually thwart more advanced tracking? The ideal case is that it would make a user look like everyone else who browses on that OS and browser in safest mode.
Safest
- This level only allows website features required for static sites and basic services. These changes affect images, media, and scripts.
- Javascript is disabled by default on all sites.
- Some fonts, icons, math symbols, and images are disabled.
- Audio and Video (HTML5 media) are click-to-play.
Based on the Tor Project’s wording it seems security modes are primarily made to benefit your security and are less about anti-fingerprinting, though I’d assume it helps with anti-fingerprinting since websites are far less capable to do things in general without JavaScript, certain fonts, etc.