It seems like you can hide yourself but not the device, surely meaning that agencies can just follow your unique ID throughout the entire network regardless of hops?

Does that mean it’s impossible to change the fingerprint ID? I was under the assumption that it would give a different ID for each use. The fingerprint ID stays exactly the same even after restarting Tor several times. If adding letterboxing would provide better security and only require a second of adjustment to fit then personally I think it would be a smart move, although I’m happy to be told I’m wrong and why. I always disable automatic font sizing too so they can’t measure how much screen is filled by letters. Pages always automatically load for desktop size and I have to do the dragging expand thing (hope my tech jargon doesn’t baffle anyone ) to read things but I see it as a minor inconvenience which I’m happy to put up with for the OS version obscurification it provides. That’s good as it doesn’t leak the real OS version but it does single you out as being on Android device.ĭo you happen to know if this fingerprinting method and it’s fine tuning is still usable when viewing pages in desktop view mode?

I personally always use the app in desktop mode because things look better (in my opinion) and you get a user agent which is not specific to any platform or OS as far as I know but in regular mobile version it marks you as being on Android, and specifically Android 10 for some reason. I fear that this will make a lot of websites incredibly difficult or tedious to use though. Perhaps forcing websites to render in desktop mode, which is already an option, will always spoof the height and width to the same desktop-like values regardless of your mobile device’s screen size.

How does a tor browser for android