Supermium

[NotHereToPlayGames]

1 hour ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Because yeah, 27 chromes is not normal.  Something within your profile is causing that.

It's the Tampermonkey HOME PAGE that automatically opens right after you install Tampermonkey from the Chrome Web Store (which I generally avoid like the plague!).

If you do not KILL THAT HOME PAGE, it keeps opening new chrome.exe's and keeps opening new chrome.exe's, and keeps opening new chrome exe's.

I was up to over A HUNDRED befoe I *killed the home page* and *ALL* of the EXTRA chrome.exe's closed with it!

[NotHereToPlayGames]

I don't have the rebase issue on a fresh install.

But every process should not be at 120+ MB either.

It's something with the Tampermonkey HOME PAGE.

I technically never install ANY extension from the Chrome Web Store.

I always download the .crx, MODIFY IT, and use the MODIFIED version.

I technically didn't even know Tampermonkey opened a "thanks for installing" web site until 'just now'.

 

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Supermium is definitely NOT FOR SERVER 2008 R2 !!!

Every background chrome.exe should be between 20 to 30 MB or so.

Not 120+ per chrome.exe.

If you really want to know "why", you would need to ask the creator/author of Supermium at his GitHub page.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Not important to me at the moment, but SOMETHING is happening on that TAMPERMONKEY "thanks for installing" HOME PAGE.

I shall make note of this and MY APOLOGIES for even RECOMMENDING to install Tampermonkey, I HAD NO IDEA IT OPENED A "thanks for installing" home page that is clearly DOING SOMETHING very VERY suspicious (at least in Supermium on Server 2008 R2).

[j7n]

1 hour ago, UCyborg said:

Bingo! Normally, it shouldn't exist. Both browsers should go back to normal if you delete the value and restart Windows.

Otherwise, you're forcing ASLR off and having old relocation logic in effect, which duplicates DLLs in memory/page file when multiple processes use them.

Removing MoveImages setting fixed the issue. I did set it some time ago.

On computer B with 20 GB RAM and similar settings set by me the out of the box experience with Supermium is equally good under Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 R2 with MoveImages 0 or default. At default, everything is relocated to some random numbers. At 0, chrome.dll is at 12000000 (not relocated). However, on computer A, the setting 0 caused the problem because of an unknown other factor. I opened a great number of webpages and only used 5 GB of memory.

https://imgur.com/a/mRljd3T

The task managers seem to show different memories so there is not quite a parity.

[D.Draker]

19 hours ago, j7n said:

What do you think BBC is?

Could be anything ranging from "Born Before Christ" to "Brought Back Crippled".

If you meant the GB BBC.co.UK, then it's indeed a heavy site, you simply ought to use an adblocker there, I mean with your multitasking preferences and low RAM.

If you stream the videos from there, it's most likely not H264, which puts load on your CPU and makes a big cache in your RAM, instead of caching into the supported GPU that has H265 and VP9 decoding capabilities.

 

[Saxon]

18 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Supermium is definitely NOT FOR SERVER 2008 R2 !!!

Every background chrome.exe should be between 20 to 30 MB or so.

Not 120+ per chrome.exe.

If you really want to know "why", you would need to ask the creator/author of Supermium at his GitHub page.

That, and also the hardware acceleration is completely broken on 7/R2, you can read at github.

[hidao]

On 12/29/2024 at 11:02 PM, D.Draker said:

Actually, no. Fingerprinting by the means of installed fonts is rather common.

HOW？

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Font fingerprinting has been around for OVER A DECADE.

BLOCKING them is NOT the way to INCREASE anonyminity!

FONT fingerprinting is one of the EASIEST to CONFUSE.  Install a font one day, uninstall it the next.  That's TWO fingerprints left behind.

An operating system whose fonts NEVER CHANGE stands out like a sore thumb because it only has ONE fingerprint.

There are certain fonts that only exist because a user installed LibreOffice or Microsoft Office or runs Vista instead of 10 or 11 or uses Acrobot Reader.  The list is endless.

If you don't want your fingerprint revealing you run Office 365, then remove the font "Calibri".

If you don't want your fingerprint revealing you run Win11, then remove the font "Segoe UI Variable" and "Segoe Fluent Icons".

Even an EMOJI font reveals you as you and creates a very unique fingerprint.  Unique is NOT good when it comes to a "browser fingerprint".

Install Supermium's emoji font and it does not matter if you remove client hints because OS + Browser + that font is a very UNIQUE fingerprint.

 

As for HOW - via JAVASCRIPT.  Like almost (but not "all") fingerprinting, YOU BLOCK JAVASCRIPT AND YOU PREVENTED THE FINGERPRINT FROM LANDING ON THE WEB SITE YOU TOUCHED WITH YOUR FINGER.

[D.Draker]

11 hours ago, hidao said:

HOW？

By scanning and exposing your installed fonts. 

 

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/163376/why-do-browsers-expose-installed-fonts

[D.Draker]

On 12/30/2024 at 7:25 AM, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Why Black Males?  Sounds racist to me.  Can't it be Black Monkeys? 

Actually, "Black Monkeys" is waaaay more "racist" by the American standards.  And in Europe, at least in France, we don't draw that much attention to one's skin colour.

I served with a guy who had a bit yellowish tan on the skin, so, how was I supposed to call him? Hey, yellow male? No, I called him by the name. And in America they call Negroes (which is their official race name)

"blacks".  It's hard to understand why it's not considered "racist". It's almost New Year, and you, my friend, you're overthinking the whole situation too much. Just go and celebrate!

Black males was simply the first suggestion when I started to type "Black M...." in the search window.

I congratulate everyone in advance!

@hidao

Supermium has a lot of unique identifiers, besides fonts, you're better off making a standalone topic.

 

 

 

[NotHereToPlayGames]

22 minutes ago, D.Draker said:

waaaay more

Had to google/bing/duck that one.  I'm not that old and that hasn't been an "American standard" for a very long time.

 

23 minutes ago, D.Draker said:

Supermium has a lot of unique identifiers

Precisely!  Unfortunately, so do most browsers.  Some are easier to "fake" (ie, "blend in with the crowd") than others.

[VistaLover]

@hidao

Already contained inside the SE entry posted by D.Draker, you can test your own browser's font fingerprint by loading: 

https://browserleaks.com/fonts

(depending on your setup, the font scan and fingerprint calculation may take up to 15s; YMMV...)

If you're really concerned about font fingerprinting (actually, only a fraction of browser fingerprinting techniques), some extensions are available: 

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/font-fingerprint-defender/fhkphphbadjkepgfljndicmgdlndmoke

and a more powerful one (designed to tackle broader fingerprinting attempts, not just the one based on installed fonts): 

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/font-fingerprint-defender/fhkphphbadjkepgfljndicmgdlndmoke

Read more: https://jshelter.org/fpd/

[Sampei.Nihira]

What is the ultimate purpose of fingeprinting?

Personalized marketing and ads.

Those who effectively block trackers + ads break this chain,because they will never see the ultimate purpose of fingerprinting.

So it would be more logical than worrying about blocking all trackers + ads.

 

Edited December 31, 2024 by Sampei.Nihira

[dmiranda]

Last I checked a few weeks ago (my old motherboard died, and am now replacing my system with linux-mint+Xen+XP but XP will take me a while to get back to, and more likely than not not for browsing), jshelter worked in supermium, and does a very good job preventing fingerprinting, fonts included..