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I really wish there was a foolproof way of preventing fingerprinting. Disabling JavaScript unfortunately isn't really an option, no-one builds websites with progressive enhancement in mind these days.
JShelter and uBO medium mode to the rescue. Pair that with Librewolf and you're pretty secure against fingerprinting.
Thanks for recommending JShelter! I'll add it to my list
The more people disable JS, the more websites won’t require it.
It's just unrealistic to expect any size of the population to even understand what JS is, much less understand why and how it's problematic and even beyond that, how to disable it, and even further to expect them to walk away from the 90%+ of sites using it on the web.
Same you can try noscript but its not very effective from blocking fingerprinting from what I know