After hearing from me, six sites said they would remove fingerprinting code, including four run by the US government. When you load a site, fingerprinting code starts asking your computer for things that aren't part of the usual process of drawing a page. Many times, fingerprinting code will run the digital equivalent of a sonar test, sending out a signal just to see what comes back. Vasilyev, who created fingerprinting software, said it is still possible to make yourself hard to fingerprint by using software such as Tor. You can add browser privacy extensions such as uBlock Origin, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Privacy Badger or Jackson's Disconnect to help stop some fingerprinting.

Source: Stuff November 02, 2019 08:15 UTC