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18 September 2025
Windscribe’s Anti-Fingerprinting limits tracking by spoofing browser identifiers
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Windscribe VPN has launched a new Anti-Fingerprinting feature
Available for free and paid plans via its browser extension, it limits online tracking
The new feature comes as snoopers no longer rely on cookies alone
Windscribe has launched a new Anti-Fingerprinting feature, making it that much more difficult for snoopers to track you online.
Available within Windscribe’s Chrome and Edge browser extensions, Anti-Fingerprinting protects against browser fingerprinting, a technique designed to build a profile about you and follow you across the internet.
Better still, the new feature is also included with Windscribe Free, one of the best Free VPNs we’ve tested.
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Anti-Fingerprinting is the latest in an impressive lineup of Windscribe features designed to bolster your online privacy. The same extension already blocks ads and trackers, prevents WebRTC leaks, and even lets you spoof your location, timezone, and language.
This latest privacy feature is a welcome addition as an increasing number of websites and advertisers move past cookies and turn to browser fingerprinting as a stealthier way to track – one that, until now, has been difficult for even the best VPN services to stop.
Fingerprinting: the hidden ways websites track you online
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Browser fingerprinting is a tracking technique that gathers a variety of characteristics from your device and browser to combine them into a single profile or “fingerprint,” all without having to rely on browser cookies.
When you visit a website, it uses JavaScript APIs and HTML5 features to gather information about you. This includes the device and browser you’re using, screen resolution, timezone, battery level, browser plugins, and more. On their own, these details may not seem significant. Put together, they create a unique fingerprint used to track you.
Not only does fingerprinting allow for persistent tracking across sites, but it also lets companies build detailed profiles for invasive targeted advertising. There’s also the risk that, combined with other identifying information, fingerprinting data could expose users to more serious threats, including identity theft and phishing attacks.
Clearing your cookies, using “incognito mode,” or changing your IP address won’t do anything to stop fingerprint tracking. Not only is there no opt-out option, but most browsers and VPNs don’t even protect against this growing threat.
How Windscribe’s Anti-Fingerprinting works
Step in Windscribe’s Anti-Fingerprinting, which takes all of the individual characteristics that form your browser fingerprint – such as your operating system, installed fonts, and time zone – and spoofs them so that an accurate fingerprint can never be formed.
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Anti-Fingerprinting even targets the most sneaky identifiers, such as canvas, WebFL, and audio fingerprinting, helping you blend in online and, combined with Windscribe’s other privacy features. All this should allow you to browse privately and anonymously.
Windscribe’s latest feature couldn’t have come at a much better time, following Google’s February 2025 announcement that it was allowing fingerprinting, giving advertisers more of your personal information to play with than ever.
You don’t need to pay us (but it’d be nice if you did) or connect to a VPN server. Just install our extension, log in with your account (which doesn’t even require an email to sign up), and then turn on Anti-Fingerprinting. Read more about it below. 4/4 https://t.co/f8Yyddd4q2September 8, 2025
Windscribe subscribers with the latest version of the Edge and Chrome extensions can already benefit from the additional protection provided by Anti-Fingerprinting. If you don’t yet have a Windscribe subscription, know that both free and paid plans are available.
You’ll find Anti-Fingerprinting by opening the Windscribe extension in your Chrome browser, clicking on the hamburger menu in the top left corner, and selecting Privacy. You can then toggle the feature as needed, along with others such as the option to fake your GPS location.
In its official announcement, the provider suggests pairing its browser extension with the VPN app for maximum protection. That’s because, “the desktop app protects your device and network traffic, while the extension makes sure your browser does not rat you out.”
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Mark is a Tech Security Writer for TechRadar and has been published on Comparitech and IGN. He graduated with a degree in English and Journalism from the University of Lincoln and spent several years teaching English as a foreign language in Spain. The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal sparked Mark’s interest in online privacy, leading him to write hundreds of articles on VPNs, antivirus software, password managers, and other cybersecurity topics. He recently completed the Google Cybersecurity Certificate, and when he’s not studying for the CompTIA Security+ exam, Mark can be found agonizing over his fantasy football team selections, watching the Detroit Lions, and battling bugs and bots in Helldivers 2.
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