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ProTip: If you enabled resistFingerprinting, you have to manually allow HTML5 canvas usage per website (mastodon.social)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My apologies to the Bugzilla team for wasting their time holding my hand on this one. Would have honestly never noticed the little "HTML5" info icon to the left of the URL bar though without their help.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not really, because doing this will make you more fingerprintable (see my other comment). That's why the default settings are striking a balance between making all users look similar and not breaking too many things (that would cause users to use user-specific overrides that make them more unique), and why resistFingerprinting is in about:config rather than a user-facing setting or enabled by default.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Or use something like Chameleon and mess with about:config which makes every unique fingerprint, different as your data is scrambled. Firefox still has webRTC leakage, font fingerprinting, audio fingerprinting... That's the reason why people use arkenfox's user.js !