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IIRC you should look into the Tor Browser’s work along these lines. It includes fun things like “provide a default untraceable screen size ignoring your own”, s
by floatingatoll 7y ago
IIRC you should look into the Tor Browser’s work along these lines. It includes fun things like “provide a default untraceable screen size ignoring your own”, so that web pages render at the wrong resolution for your browser window in exchange for one less effective vector. I don’t know if Firefox has it under a config option or not.
- kbenson 7y agoI think you're talking about letterboxing, which Mozilla stole as a good idea from Tor a while back, and is gated behind the "privacy.resistFingerprinting" config option. It was covered here at the time.[1] 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19323032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19323032
- floatingatoll 7y ago"stole" is an unusual phrasing of "uplifted into Firefox": https://blog.torproject.org/tor-heart-firefox https://blog.torproject.org/tor-heart-firefox
- kbenson 7y agoI figured someone might interpret that the wrong way. In my mind it was sort of a "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" mixed with "Good artists copy; great artists steal." I tried to allude to this with the "as a good idea" bit, so maybe it would come across as "that's a good idea, I'm stealing it!" To summarize and clarify, I applaud their actions wholeheartedly. :)