Being anonymous online?

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If you are among those people who believe that surfing incognito is like being anonymous online maybe it's best you keep reading. We believe that with some practical demonstrations it will be easier to understand what we mean when we talk about rethinking the idea that many have of online privacy.
We therefore present to you a site that will, with extreme ease, demonstrate how simple it is to recognize yourself online, even if you think you are anonymous. So let's play a game, a test very simple:

• Click on the red button below.
• Once you arrive at nothingprivate.ml, enter a name. Yours or an invented one, it makes no difference.
• Now open an incognito tab on your Browsers.
• Go back to that site.

We managed to intrigue you Enough?

Unless you are already passionate about privacy, with reasonable certainty the site we have presented to you will be able to recognize you even if you browse incognito. Not only, it will recognize you even if you turn off your PC and turn it back on. Even if you delete all cookies And chronology. It will always recognize you, until you press the 'key'Forget me‘.

Being anonymous online?

The project NothingPrivate was born from an idea of Guatam krishna R. a developer of DuckDuckGo. The site was born with the idea of making everyone understand what the Fingerprinting and how recognizable it is to be online, even if we generally think the opposite.

But how does he do it? I didn't think I was so recognizable!

But how does Nothingprivate always recognize me and how can you be anonymous online? It manages to recognize you with a system used by many sites called Fingerprinting. Basically via a js (javascript, a language that is used daily in the creation of modern sites) manages to obtain various information from your PC. A kind of Fingerprint, Fingerprinting precisely.
By pressing that button your fingerprint will be saved. A set of data that you leave, without knowing it, when you are online:

user agent, screen print, color depth, current resolution, available resolution, device XDPI, device YDPI, plugin list, font list, local storage, session storage, timezone, language, system language, cookies, canvas print

The set of these data is one of many ways to uniquely identify a person online in a manner legal and simple. You understand well how easy it is to identify yourself individually and how all this can be used both for economic purposes but, unfortunately, even for less noble purposes.

How to be anonymous online?

All this, among other things, is almost inevitable if you use Google Chrome like Browsers. However, it is possible to avoid it if used Firefox (with a CanvasBlocker). Thanks to Brave, however, you will not be recognized even using the basic settings without the need to add other extensions. It's one of the reasons we generally recommend it to people who don't want to touch settings or install plugins. If you are on Android you will not be recognized even using it Bromite. Or using Tor Browsers without touching any settings.

We hope to be able to convince you that these it's not paranoia as conspiracy theorists, these are things that are done daily by many sites. Look for example Fingerprintjs.com, according to their website this system is used by companies like eBay, Booking, Dell and many others. You can test it via the site fingerprintjs.com/demo.
There is also another test, if you have taken a liking to it. Is called ClientJS.org and will assign you a unique code which will remain identical even if you open the page in incognito mode.

Being anonymous online? Our privacy is at stake

How do you feel?

Our goal is to raise awareness people on this, to be able to make you understand that we are not as anonymous as we think and that it is perhaps good to protect ourselves. Or at least be one Really advised. Because these methods can be used for good (or profit), but they can become dangerous tools in the hands of wrong people And at the wrong historical moment.

If we have intrigued you, share this article with your skeptical friends. Plus you can read our insights by reading the alternatives to Google Search, the alternatives to Google Chrome and in general all our alternatives. Why privacy is a right and it is essential to protect it.

Did you like the test?

Know that there is more than just JavaScript for tracking. For example, even with CSS they can leave a digital footprint and on this site find a great example. Scroll down to the bottom and press on “I Agree” to find out how many things you can know about us even without having JavaScript enabled.

If you are interested in these practical examples for understand privacy easily without boring words or strange technicalities we advise you to follow the tag that we have created specifically called, precisely, practical examples.

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