Compare to cookies. I use two extensions. The first accepts all cookies to bypass cookie banners. The second deletes all non white listed cookies on closing the page. This works well for me since I seldom have more than 20 pages open, and I constantly close them.
Is there a way to avoid browser fingerprinting like this at all (with potential qol benefits) or am I extra screwed because I do things like this in addition to running Linux on a computer I built?
Couple interesting resources:
These mostly just tell you how fucked you are though. The latter has some resources about how to deal with it, but it’s not that useful. The former is really good at breaking down the datapoints that are fucking you.
A lot of this stuff isn’t really something I’d want to remove, too. Like javascript knowing the viewport size or my timezone. Frustrating.
Edit to add: Found this as well which has some good info for configuring Firefox. Some things seem extreme to me, but it’s quite informative. https://avoidthehack.com/firefox-privacy-config
I use LibreWolf which implements pretty tough fingerprint mitigation… but I end up disabling a lot of it because it breaks a lot of sites.