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As soon as I saw these APIs being added I immediately dropped into about:config and disabled them. How the hell do these people think this is a good idea to do
by ultramancool 10y ago
As soon as I saw these APIs being added I immediately dropped into about:config and disabled them. How the hell do these people think this is a good idea to do without asking any permissions?
Put these in your user prefs.js file on Firefox:
user_pref("dom.battery.enabled", false);
user_pref("device.sensors.enabled", false);
user_pref("dom.vibrator.enabled", false);
user_pref("dom.enable_performance", false);
user_pref("dom.network.enabled", false);
user_pref("toolkit.metrics.ping.enabled", false);
user_pref("dom.gamepad.enabled", false);
Here's my full firefox config currently:
https://up1.ca/#nUSA1WtY13ECfmYC5c825w https://up1.ca/#nUSA1WtY13ECfmYC5c825w
Privacy on the web keeps getting harder and harder. Of course this should only be used in conjunction with maxed out ad blockers, anti-anti-adblockers, privacy badger and disconnect.
We need browsers to start asking permission. When you install an app on Android or iOS it says "here's what it's going to use, do you want this?". The mere presence of the popup would annoy people and prevent them from using these APIs.
- DavideNL 10y agofyi, related: Firefox addon "Privacy Settings" : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-settings/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-setti...
- mccr8 10y agoOf course, now a site could potentially fingerprint you by the set of APIs you have disabled!
- Zooper 10y agoThank you, user, for making your fingerprint hash more unique by disabling certain default features, given your user-agent string, thus opting into cat-facts.
- shostack 10y agoDisabling them probably makes you significantly more unique than those that don't just because the vast majority of people never will disable them.
- imtringued 10y agoIt's great that mozilla decided to remove about:permissions. I do enjoy the fact that I now have to visit every website whose permissions I want to change instead of managing all permissions from a single location.