Most of the things you interact with online are tracking your location, your device type, and your digital footprint to predict exactly how desperate you are to buy something. If the algorithm thinks you have money, or simply lack options, it alters the price in real-time.
To prove how widespread “surveillance pricing” has become, I decided to see if I could outsmart it. This involved exploiting corporate registry loopholes to create a fake corporate entity, hiring an improv actor off Craigslist to establish a completely separate digital identity, and strapping a burner phone to a drone to make purchases from the airspace above the wealthiest gated community in Minnesota.
I recently learned about fingerprinting.
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
Interesting. I passed 2 out of 3. I have a unique headers problem. Using vanadium on GOS. Is this the place to download ironfox from ? https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/releases
Yeah that’s why I use what I use. I’ve checked that before and as long as I have JS disabled I’m at 1/1134 which is a pretty good score. Although sometimes you have to unblock sites to get them to work, so ¯\(ツ)/¯. Although at least webgl can be blocked separately.
It’s a mixed bag really. Disabling JavaScript thwarts a lot of tracking efforts. But at the same time it puts you into a very small niche of users that, combined with other data points (user agent, IP location) makes you pretty fingerprintable.
Coming from a fellow JS Disabler, mind you.