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Right decision to make a step towards a user and protect their market. Preventing fingerprinting is interesting and non-trivial by itself. It's impossible to im
by Eli_P 8y ago
Right decision to make a step towards a user and protect their market. Preventing fingerprinting is interesting and non-trivial by itself. It's impossible to implement with just a plugin.
One day I found that navigator.getGamepads() did rat out my gamepad in Chrome while using private mode, I twitted Google, they didn't answer. Who knows what else is exposed.
I didn't know Firefox had privacy.resistFingerprinting.reduceTimerPrecision.jitter option, that's cool, but what about requestAnimationFrame()? Games wouldn't work without it. Not to mention spawning workers and passing values between them; delays while using things like shaders and gpu.js; decoding various formats like audio and measuring time, etc. Anyone tried to block videos on news sites? They are unstoppable, I can watch vids like with everything red in uBlock Origin.
I think Mozilla could make a contest for breaking their fingerprint resistance, before they are ready to merge their privacy features from Nightly to master branch.