I used to be one of those people who just installed whatever proxy extension had the most downloads and the best-looking icon, clicked a few toggles, and called it a day. That worked fine until it didn’t  I found out through a genuinely uncomfortable Reddit thread that a fairly popular free proxy extension had been […]

I remember the first time someone explained canvas fingerprinting to me, my honest reaction was “wait, that’s actually kind of insane,” and I don’t think that reaction has fully gone away even now, months later, after reading way more about it than a normal person probably should. It’s one of those privacy topics that sounds

I want to start with a slightly dumb story because I think it explains this whole topic better than any technical breakdown could. A while back I installed a User Agent switcher extension, flipped my browser to pretend it was Safari on an iPhone, and went to check out on a site that had a