Thilo Maier

Cover Your Tracks

Note
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

The EFF has a website to check whether your browser protects you from being tracked through fingerprinting. Fingerprinting is a tracking technique that collects unique details about your device and browser settings to create a profile that identifies you across websites without using cookies.

On the Cover Your Tracks website, you can test if your browser does enough to protect you from being fingerprinted. I was surprised to see that Safari handles this much better than Chromium. In my case, I tested a de-Googled Helium browser with uBlock Origin.

Helium users are vulnerable to being fingerprinted:

The result of testing Helium with uBlock Origin on the Cover Your Tracks website.
The Cover Your Tracks result for Helium with uBlock Origin. Users can be tracked through fingerprinting.

Safari, on the other hand, protects users with a randomized fingerprint:

The result of testing Safari on macOS on the Cover Your Tracks website.
The Cover Your Tracks result for Safari on macOS. Users are better protected from fingerprinting.

On macOS, Safari is the better choice for everyday browsing.