Show HN: I built a cross-browser extension that controls fingerprinting surfaces 13 by tomaszjanusz | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hello Hacker News! I’m Tomasz, creator of Privacy Thing, a browser extension for Firefox and Chromium-based browsers. I’ve just released its Preview version. Privacy Thing aims to reduce browser fingerprinting—the tracking of users without cookies. It began as an internal project: a simple location simulator. Over time, I expanded it to cover more fingerprinting surfaces. It now has 13 protection categories affecting 50+ browser APIs and methods: Geolocation, time and locale settings, Canvas, WebGL, Audio, Navigator, Screen, Client Hints, Battery, WebRTC, Dedicated Workers, Service Workers, and Shared Workers. The list is still growing. The extension is fully configurable. Users can create regional profiles and assign them to domain rules, with separate protection settings for each domain. Or they can skip domain rules and rely on the global configuration—...