heavyboots (@heavyboots@mastodon.social)
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Attached: 2 images Since I’m the idiot learning this by filing bug reports, I thought I’d pass it on to all other #FireFox users on here. If you enable resistFingerprinting in about:config, the web site will start showing you weird stripy graphics anywhere an HTML5 canvas graphic would be generated. To fix this for sites you trust is to click on the tiny graphic icon to the left of the URL and allow use of your HTML5 canvas. Big thanks to the patient Bugzilla guys for dealing with my bug report and the solution.

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.

  • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Surely this is a user experience that could be improved, no? Awesome feature but confusing solution.

    • Vincent@feddit.nl
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      2 years ago

      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.

      • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
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        2 years 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 !