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Firefox Fingerprinting protection has nothing to do with real fingerprinting protection, and does not afffect panopticlick results in any way. It just bloocks

Firefox Fingerprinting protection has nothing to do with real fingerprinting protection, and does not afffect panopticlick results in any way. It just bloocks a couple of known scripts based on the disconnect list. Of course they don't tell us in their marketing posts.

danShumway 7y ago
Firefox deploys two different forms of fingerprint protection: 1) blocking known fingerprinting scripts. 2) blocking underlying techniques. The second is the one people here are talking about, and it can be enabled by going to your settings and turning on resistFingerprinting. Keep in mind it will do things like normalize your time zone and decrease timer precision.
- user17843 7y ago
  Nope. The linked mozilla blog post clearly talks about the fingerprinting settings, and the comment I replied to did not specify anything related to "blocking underlying techniques".
  - danShumway 7y ago
    This entire thread is filled with people comparing browser results on a site that breaks down underlying fingerprint techniques, while asking questions like, "is there a way for me to disable WebGL?", and "I wonder if they block localhost port scanning?". I understand what the original posted link is talking about, but the specific thread you're currently on is very clearly talking about more than whether or not Panoptoclick's tracking script is blocked. They're talking about how well different browsers can resist the techniques it uses[0]. Why else would anyone be comparing their results to Tor? [0]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting
    - jrochkind1 7y ago
      If the thing in the OP doesn't do what a bunch of the comments here are discussing -- it is indeed important to point that out. I had assumed it did, cause why else would we be discussing it here, and neither the OP post nor the FF setting are very clear about what it does. So I would have been thinking it was protecting me.
hulahoof 7y ago
Resist fingerprinting will also stop sensor data (e.g. accelerometer) from being exposed on mobile, which can be used to identify[1]. You can verify if it's exposed on this site[2]. [1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/android-and-ios-devices-impacted-by-new-sensor-calibration-attack/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/android-and-ios-devices-impact... [2] http://www.albertosarullo.com/demos/accelerometer/ http://www.albertosarullo.com/demos/accelerometer/

danShumway 7y ago

Firefox deploys two different forms of fingerprint protection: 1) blocking known fingerprinting scripts. 2) blocking underlying techniques. The second is the one people here are talking about, and it can be enabled by going to your settings and turning on resistFingerprinting. Keep in mind it will do things like normalize your time zone and decrease timer precision.

user17843 7y ago
Nope. The linked mozilla blog post clearly talks about the fingerprinting settings, and the comment I replied to did not specify anything related to "blocking underlying techniques".
- danShumway 7y ago
  This entire thread is filled with people comparing browser results on a site that breaks down underlying fingerprint techniques, while asking questions like, "is there a way for me to disable WebGL?", and "I wonder if they block localhost port scanning?". I understand what the original posted link is talking about, but the specific thread you're currently on is very clearly talking about more than whether or not Panoptoclick's tracking script is blocked. They're talking about how well different browsers can resist the techniques it uses[0]. Why else would anyone be comparing their results to Tor? [0]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting
  - jrochkind1 7y ago
    If the thing in the OP doesn't do what a bunch of the comments here are discussing -- it is indeed important to point that out. I had assumed it did, cause why else would we be discussing it here, and neither the OP post nor the FF setting are very clear about what it does. So I would have been thinking it was protecting me.

hulahoof 7y ago

Resist fingerprinting will also stop sensor data (e.g. accelerometer) from being exposed on mobile, which can be used to identify[1]. You can verify if it's exposed on this site[2]. [1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/android-and-ios-devices-impacted-by-new-sensor-calibration-attack/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/android-and-ios-devices-impact... [2] http://www.albertosarullo.com/demos/accelerometer/ http://www.albertosarullo.com/demos/accelerometer/