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This is horrible from a UX perspective. There are many fingerprinting techniques besides this. I don't see how adding a user hostile behaviour will help.
by kowdermeister 8y ago
This is horrible from a UX perspective. There are many fingerprinting techniques besides this. I don't see how adding a user hostile behaviour will help.
- commoner 8y agoFortunately, this is entirely optional. The "privacy.resistFingerprinting" option bundles a set of features that make it more difficult for sites to uniquely identify the user at a cost to usability. It's up to each user to determine whether that usability cost is worth the privacy improvements. On Firefox, it's an opt-in setting, off by default.
- move-on-by 8y agoWhat else can they do to decrease the effectiveness of increasingly hostile trackers?
- kowdermeister 8y agoEasy way to do ad networks host blocking. The real problem is canvas fingerprinting, but that's an inherent issue of the whole graphics stack so everything depends on your freak-out factor.