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Yes, everyone knows you can change the user agent string, but how do you change the list of plugins returned by the browser? Do you have to actually patch the b

• mpeg 11y ago
  navigator.__defineGetter__('plugins', function(){ return new Object(); }); Of course, you'd actually have to do a bit more work to make it bulletproof (otherwise fingerprinters could use the fact that you modified your default navigator object as a way to uniquely identify you !) I imagine ultimately it's almost impossible to defeat fingerprinters in JS, as they could do tricky stuff like timing attacks to get you. Use NoScript if you're concerned.
• throwaway252525 11y ago
  You can set plugins.enumerable_names to the empty string, or to the plugins you want returned. Unfortunately, this was recently removed.[1] [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1169945 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1169945