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Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Disabling WebRTC would make your Firefox instance extremely unique and thus easily fingerprinted.

• jackewiehose 4y ago
  Yes, but as far as I understand, the fight against fingerprinting is lost anyway. Having WebRTC enabled can be dangerous for other reasons. You could be seeding a torrent unknowingly just by visiting a website. This can turn into a freaking disaster if you live in country like Germany. It's a shame that browsers don't ask you for WebRTC like they do with webcams.
  • jackewiehose 4y ago
    Was I wrong about the torrent stuff or did the downvotes come from web-developers who want WebRTC to be always available by default?
    • Dylan16807 4y ago
      Well for one a website can make you secretly upload copyrighted content with plain old javascript. And it's going to be hard to hold you liable for data uploads that someone else initiated and you didn't know about.
      • jackewiehose 4y ago
        > Well for one a website can make you secretly upload copyrighted content with plain old javascript Only to a webserver and thanks to CORS not to any webserver. There is no benefit for a website doing that - unlike with sharing a torrent to other internet users. The problem with torrents is that they are actively watched by "Abmahnanwälte" (lawyers who make a living by suing copyright offenders). > And it's going to be hard to hold you liable for data uploads that someone else initiated and you didn't know about yeah good luck with that. All they see is your IP and then you can try to explain how this happened and how you are totally innocent.