> This is not true of any web browser because of fingerprinting.

Some browsers, like the one you should be using, have anti-fingerprinting tech in them.

Anti fingerprinting is nice but if you get served ads based on your IP address you're going to need more than just a browser to escape tracking based advertising. Adblockers aren't good enough when websites you visit use first-party servers to forward data back to ad networks.

▲

jazzypants 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Serving ads based on IP seems foolish when very, very few people have a static IP. I'm sure that a healthy minority of folks on HN do, but we're hardly representative of the general population.

▲

pixl97 4 days ago | parent [-]

Your IP is a lot more static than you give it credit for. It's not like the dialup era where you get a new IP each time. For example I have a dynamic IP on my cable modem, but it might as well be static as it only changes after there is a long term power outage. Also, it's likely if you're on a home connection most often, then you only have a limited pool of 32k or so IPs, which dramatically lowers the bits of information needed to identify you.

	▲	immibis 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		European ISPs (at least some) change your IP every day, including IPv6, unless you opt out from the router's configuration page, as a privacy feature. Apparently tracking data of Europeans has a much higher market price.

▲

akimbostrawman 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Mullvad Browser comes with the fingerprint protection of the tor browser and a VPN addon but you do need to pay for there vpn.

▲

samtheprogram 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You didn’t finish my comment. Read the last sentence.

Anti-fingerprinting tech just produces a different fingerprint. Google knows e.g. when things are scrambled but certain other things stay the same.

	▲	tojumpship 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Untrue, you can modify it enough to avoid giving it more entropy. Possible approaches include: - Spoofing browsers down to the TCP stack - Plausibily random values - Every possible bit scrambled on each request You can see a similar thought-process behind Tor bridges so it is tried-and-tested. Noted that it is a much more difficult feat to accomplish in a full blown browser rather than network layer.