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Stepping Up the Game Against Web Trackers

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Explore advanced techniques for minimizing your browsing footprint and combating web trackers in this 46-minute conference talk from linux.conf.au. Delve into the ineffectiveness of the Do-Not-Track HTTP request header and learn practical strategies to protect your online privacy. Discover tools and methods such as browser preferences, cookie management, user agent randomization, canvas blocking, and private browsing. Examine the impact of privacy plugins, network monitoring, and DNS-level blocking with Pihole. Gain insights into the complexities of modern web tracking and how to effectively counter them while browsing the internet.

Syllabus

Introduction
Loading a website
Maximizing ad revenue
You Matrix
Network Console
Other tools
Browser preferences
Stack Overflow
Cookie Autodelete
Questions
Block Service Workers
Request Control Rules
Random UA
Canvas blocker
Private browsing
Piehole
How long does it take to browse
Privacy plugins

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