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I find it helpful to realize when websites are taking measures to track me. If their site is broken by privacy protections, maybe I don't want to be using that

• palant 6y ago
  It tends to make animations sluggish, see for example https://github.com/framer/motion/issues/441 https://github.com/framer/motion/issues/441. That’s not because they are trying to track you but simply because requestAnimationFrame (which has its legitimate uses) can potentially be used for fingerprinting. No regular user is going to make the connection between broken functionality and this setting, and I’ve seen developers waste lots of time on this.
  • viseztrance 6y ago
    I did not knew this! But on the other hand, I've seen "performance.now" in the wild being used to track people.
• jedimastert 6y ago
  resistfingerprinting works by making JS APIs less useful, even if used legitimately. If you rely on something that is both accurate and distinct to a user for functionality, that functionality os going to be broken by fingerprinting mitigation. There is no "fingerprinting API" that can simply be disabled, it's a combination of many APIs that all have real-world not-evil uses.
• sobellian 6y ago
  I actually use Firefox to resist fingerprinting, but it's definitely annoying and not for everyone. For one, all times are presented to me in UTC now. I understand why Firefox doesn't present my real timezone, but it's kind of absurd to complain that the website is broken in that case and not the JS API.
• Dylan16807 6y ago
  Well for one it limits the max texture size to 2048px, when normally 4096 has support everywhere.