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I wish all information-leaky browser features were turned off by default and I could easily turn them on on demand when needed. Like, the browser could detect t
by pl90087 4y ago
I wish all information-leaky browser features were turned off by default and I could easily turn them on on demand when needed. Like, the browser could detect that a webpage accesses one of them and tells me that I am currently experiencing a degraded experience which I could improve by turning this slider on.
- tormeh 4y agoI believe the LibreWolf browser does this. It's basically Firefox with all the fingerprintable features turned off.
- jeroenhd 4y agoI've set up my Firefox with resistFingerprinting but without an auto deny on canvas access. It's sickening to see how often web pages still profile you, but the setting seems to work. Similarly, on Android there's a Chromium fork called Bromite that shows JIT, WebRTC, and WebGL as separate permissions, denied by default. I only use it for when broken websites don't work right on Firefox, but websites seem to function fine without all those permissions being enabled by default. Competent websites will tell you the necessary settings ("WebGL is not available") so making the websites work isn't much trouble. I'd much rather see those error messages than getting a "turn on canvas fingerprinting for a better experience" popup from my browser every time I try to visit blogs or news websites.
- pl90087 4y agoRight. But I don't want to have to dig into settings hierarchies for those knobs. The threashold for that is too high and almost nobody will bother and do that. Something easier with simple sliders would be much better.