Mozilla Firefox gets new anti-fingerprinting defenses

(bleepingcomputer.com)

43 points | by dangle1 13 hours ago ago

7 comments

  • pona-a an hour ago

    I wish them the best. When I last tested it on fingerprint.com, the hash remained stable even with resistFingerprinting and letterboxing from a VPN, only changing between profiles. When I daily-drove resistFingerprinting (not reduceFingerprinting that permits exceptions like dark mode) in 2021, my hash changed every restart.

  • tmtvl 10 hours ago

    I'm already using CanvasBlocker, Decentraleyes, and the NoScript Security Suite; but getting more protections will be nice. Even if it may take a while for them to land in Waterfox.

    • ravenstine 9 hours ago

      How is your browsing experience with that stuff? I used to go nuts with anti-tracking measures, but enough of my browsing experience kept breaking that it just didn't feel worth it.

      • MathMonkeyMan 6 hours ago

        I use LibreWolf at work, and I exempt most internal sites from aggressive anti-tracking stuff, but otherwise it works fine.

    • hku333 2 hours ago

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  • Dwedit 8 hours ago

    Adding noise to images sounds like a really bad idea. It will mess with any Javascript code which performs processing on images. Try writing a photo editor in Javascript and watch your browser corrupt your images.

    • zuhsetaqi 3 hours ago

      Like the articel says those features can be disabled on a per site basis.