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Gourd

@mcc @brandon Going into Edit -> Settings -> LibreWolf and unchecking "Enable Resist Fingerprinting" causes timezone reporting to start working again.

12 July at 23:23 | Wall-to-wall | Open on indiepocalypse.social
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mcc

@gourd @brandon Cool! I guess my friend's specific complaint was they wanted the fingerprinting protection *other* than that single measure.

12 July at 23:26 | Open on mastodon.social
Gourd

@mcc @brandon Their logic is that they want it to be an all-or-nothing toggle so that there isn't people can't have a more obvious signature by it only being partially spoofed, I think? *shrug*

12 July at 23:27 | Open on indiepocalypse.social
mcc

@gourd @brandon Uhhh wait. Now that you mention it that actually *is* a really strong fingerprinting signal lol

12 July at 23:29 | Open on mastodon.social
Gourd

@mcc @brandon At the least, I'd check the LibreWolf config page and think about "Silently block canvas access requests" and "Enable letterboxing" which are under the ResistFingerprinting one and one of them might be turned on by default? (Don't entirely remember.)

The first (block canvas access) suppresses warnings that a site is requesting to access your canvas and those are useful to know if something might break (it usually won't, but you can hit a button to dismiss it permanently for that site). The second locks LibreWolf to only display at common resolutions no matter what your window size is and put padding around it for the rest of the window. That one's too much for even me.

@mcc @brandon At the least, I'd check the LibreWolf config page and think about "Silently block canvas access requests" and "Enable letterboxing" which are under the ResistFingerprinting one and one of them might be turned on by default? (Don't entirely remember.)

The first (block canvas access) suppresses warnings that a site is requesting to access your canvas and those are useful to know if something might break (it usually won't, but you can hit a button to dismiss it permanently for that site)....

12 July at 23:34 | Open on indiepocalypse.social
Jessica's new Main

@mcc@mastodon.social @gourd@indiepocalypse.social @brandon@mastodon.blanu.net If you want some protections, you can install the "canvas blocker" extension. I believe at some point they recommended you at least install canvas blocker if you couldn't use rFP
for me I really want access to dark mode and rfp disables that.
as for android, you can install fennec fdroid which is basically firefox with telemetry disabled by default. Mull is more of the "aggressive privacy" angle if you're into that.

13 July at 0:21 | Open on kitsunes.club
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