By the time I got to AudioContext fingerprinting, I’ll admit I was already a little exhausted from the whole rabbit hole  canvas fingerprinting, WebRTC leaks, User-Agent mismatches, I’d been through all of it over a few months and thought I had a decent handle on browser privacy. Then a friend sent me a link one […]

I want to tell you about the exact moment I stopped trusting my VPN, because I think it’ll save you the same slightly humiliating experience I had. I was on a call with a friend who works in cybersecurity, just casually mentioning how I’d been using a VPN for months and felt pretty good about

So a few months back I got three of my Instagram accounts banned in the same week. Same week. I remember staring at the screen thinking, okay, either Instagram hates me personally or I’m doing something structurally wrong. Turned out it was the second one. I was running everything through a cheap datacenter proxy bundle

‘ll be honest with you upfront: I spent about two weeks last spring going down a browser fingerprinting rabbit hole after a friend showed me a site that guessed my exact laptop model, my timezone, and even my GPU  just from visiting a webpage. No login, no cookies accepted, nothing. Just… it knew. That’s the