A user created a thread in this lemmy community remarking that the Tor Browser has a personally identifiable fingerprint under normal settings (the “Standard” and “Safer” modes make you fingerprintable), with several commenters doing the same test and reporting the same. The user who created this post also said that on the privacy guides forum posts about this topic are being deleted.
The poster could try to provide proof. Has at least one of these posts been archived (on archive.is or archive.org)?
Tor and Mullvad to a lesser extent don’t try to erase all fingerprints. They try to normalize the ones that can’t be hidden. So your fingerprints will be randomized within a pool of choices and everyone using Tor or Mullvad shares the same pool. So instead of trying to disappear, you try to blend into the crowd. They can see you, they just can’t tell you apart from the person next to you because your browsers are all broadcasting the same information.
This isn’t true. It used to be true, but advanced fingerprinting done is measuring certain metrics that Tor Browser are not always blocking against.
On fingerprint.com, it will give you a hash and say how many times you’ve been there before. For me, it said I had been there once. I closed the browser, came back, and had the same hash and it said I had been there twice. I did this tests multiple times and in multiple ways.
Notice how this person didn’t post any screen captures of from fingerprint.com showing that they have supposedly visited 1000 times or whatever would be expected if Tor Browser had a fingerprint that was consistent across all users.
I posted very clearly the problem, and some people replicated it, and some people couldn’t, and the problem may or may not vary across distros. It’s also possible some people could be lying. But yes, I tried to post this on privacyguides forum and they made it incredibly hard to post it, then deleted my username, and it was strange, and other people have had strange experiences.