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Interesting, i wonder how effective resistFingerprinting will be...? "If true, the resistFingerprinting preference makes the browser report generic spoofed inf
by DavideNL 9y ago
Interesting, i wonder how effective resistFingerprinting will be...?
"If true, the resistFingerprinting preference makes the browser report generic spoofed information for data that's commonly used for fingerprinting. Such data includes the number of CPU cores, precision of JavaScript timers, and the local timezone. It will also disable features that are used in fingerprinting, such as GamePad support, and the WebSpeech and Navigator APIs."
- ChrisSD 9y agoIt's basically ported from the Tor Browser so it will be similarly effective. Which is to say it makes fingerprinting harder but not necessarily impossible if you have javascript turned on.
- jcomis 9y agoI am also curious about this. I used several plugins in earlier FF versions to reduce fingerprinting / change security preferences and settings. None of them seem to work on 57. The answer seems to be to just flip on "resistfingerprinting". Seems almost too easy... and available information isn't exactly clear.
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- Sylos 9y agoI tested it on a fresh profile on Firefox Nightly 59.0a1 (2017-11-21), using https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/. And well, apparently it has a pretty bad bug. It spoofs my screen size from previously 1366x768, which 1 in 9.43 browsers have, to 1318x686, which by itself is already unique, because that really is just not a screen size that anyone sells. So, that's a thing. Maybe it's just isolated to Nightly, but if in doubt, maybe also just test yourself. Now where to report this...
- bhrgunatha 9y ago> to 1318x686, which by itself is already unique, Is it sticky though? I don't know how the spoofing works, but if the next time, the same site gets a different size, wouldn't your profile become less identifiable across visits and other web sites.