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I enabled fingerprint blocking on Firefox after reading this. Does it break a lot of websites? This site says some banks use it to authenticate. https://medium.

I enabled fingerprint blocking on Firefox after reading this. Does it break a lot of websites? This site says some banks use it to authenticate. https://medium.com/slido-dev-blog/we-collected-500-000-browser-fingerprints-here-is-what-we-found-82c319464dc9 https://medium.com/slido-dev-blog/we-collected-500-000-brows...

Semaphor 7y ago
I’ve always enabled fingerprint-blocking, first with extensions, now in the browser. The only places I had problems logging in are some very few online shops. Never a bank, and I had a bank with a password limit of 6 characters (about 5 years ago)
- _underfl0w_ 7y ago
  > I had a bank with a password limit of 6 characters Clearly information security is their forte /s
youngtaff 7y ago
Some of the bot detection products use fingerprinting to try to establish whether someone is a real browser or not
jazzyjackson 7y ago
I closed my accounts with Chase and Citi because I kept getting locked out of my accounts for suspicious activity. Disabling PIA VPN helped but I never could figure out what else about me trying to avoid being tracked looked suspicious. Apparently they take a 'only criminals would clear cookies' approach.
- driverdan 7y ago
  I use very aggressive privacy protections and have never been locked out of Chase or Citi. I've had a lot of trouble logging in though.
- _underfl0w_ 7y ago
  Maybe you're mistaking that for "only criminals would use a VPN [to disguise the true origin of their web requests]" approach. Still not an absolute one should be unequivocally confident in, but risk management types for a major bank... probably don't care.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
    Then we simply decline to do business with them. Either they learn to care... or we don't care anyways, because they're no longer our problem.
dineshdb 7y ago
Use Canvas blocker which will give a fake fingerprint instead.

Semaphor 7y ago

I’ve always enabled fingerprint-blocking, first with extensions, now in the browser. The only places I had problems logging in are some very few online shops. Never a bank, and I had a bank with a password limit of 6 characters (about 5 years ago)

_underfl0w_ 7y ago
> I had a bank with a password limit of 6 characters Clearly information security is their forte /s

youngtaff 7y ago

Some of the bot detection products use fingerprinting to try to establish whether someone is a real browser or not

jazzyjackson 7y ago

I closed my accounts with Chase and Citi because I kept getting locked out of my accounts for suspicious activity. Disabling PIA VPN helped but I never could figure out what else about me trying to avoid being tracked looked suspicious. Apparently they take a 'only criminals would clear cookies' approach.

driverdan 7y ago
I use very aggressive privacy protections and have never been locked out of Chase or Citi. I've had a lot of trouble logging in though.
_underfl0w_ 7y ago
Maybe you're mistaking that for "only criminals would use a VPN [to disguise the true origin of their web requests]" approach. Still not an absolute one should be unequivocally confident in, but risk management types for a major bank... probably don't care.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
  Then we simply decline to do business with them. Either they learn to care... or we don't care anyways, because they're no longer our problem.

dineshdb 7y ago

Use Canvas blocker which will give a fake fingerprint instead.