Very practical, the extensions of Google Chrome however, may siphon data about your system and web browsing to create a unique profile based on your fingerprint. This profile can then be used to stalk you online.
The extensions installed on the Chrome browser have the ability to scan your device’s system and duplicate it in order to create a “fingerprint” of your device. This can then be used to track all of your online activity.
Your fingerprint is undoubtedly unique
The information retrieved is so numerous and precise that it makes it possible to create a unique profile. You can also do the test yourself on the site AmIUniquewhich allows you to know whether your so-called browser fingerprint is common to another user or not.
In our test, we find that our footprint is unique: 47.83% of users use Windows, 44.73% Chrome, but only 2.86% version 102 of the browser. In addition, language, time zone, screen resolution and other data help refine the profile, so that it is then easy to find you on the web, since you are unique.
How to blend in? Solutions are not convenient
In an attempt to avoid being tracked in this way because of its footprint, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) offers a few solutions. We might as well warn you right away, we don’t find them really effective or practical.
In order to be more difficult to identify, the EFF recommends using a popular browser. But as we saw in our example, the extensions also manage to identify the version number of the browser, and since not everyone is very assiduous on the subject of updates, this technique remains limited by the fragmentation of versions.
Another tip is to disable JavaScript on one’s browser, which is needed to siphon off information. But this would lead to a strong degradation of the web experience, since many features of a plethora of sites exploit this language.
Private browsing mode can be the right compromise, but it can make it more difficult to use the browser for some users who use options like automatic form filling or who don’t want to have to manually log in to their accounts during each session.
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Google Chrome no longer has to prove its qualities as a stable, fluid, fast, secure, ergonomic and multifunctional browser. Its interface and its mode of use are suitable for all audiences, inexperienced as informed. Criteria that still allow it today to dominate the market on a global scale, and to pursue development that inspires new web standards. But Chrome is not immune to a much less formidable aspect: the collection and commercialization of personal data by the browser which makes it a serious threat to the privacy of Internet users, all the more so when used in conjunction with other Google services. If respect for confidentiality must, for you, take precedence over the rest, we advise you to turn to Brave or Firefox, more reliable alternatives with satisfactory performance.
Google Chrome no longer has to prove its qualities as a stable, fluid, fast, secure, ergonomic and multifunctional browser. Its interface and its mode of use are suitable for all audiences, inexperienced as informed. Criteria that still allow it today to dominate the market on a global scale, and to pursue development that inspires new web standards. But Chrome is not immune to a much less formidable aspect: the collection and commercialization of personal data by the browser which makes it a serious threat to the privacy of Internet users, all the more so when used in conjunction with other Google services. If respect for confidentiality must, for you, take precedence over the rest, we advise you to turn to Brave or Firefox, more reliable alternatives with satisfactory performance.
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