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Re:Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique ... by renholder on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @06:52PM (#19324227)
>Apps need it to determine where to place elements.

This determination can't be done client-side? In other words, if I resize the window, it's going to send the new size to determine where to place the elements in the "new" area?

Re:Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique ... by tedunangst on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @06:59PM (#19324273)
document.Write("<img src=width.png?" + document.innerWidth + ">")
Re:Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique ... by jancsika on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @08:19PM (#19324765)
That's a problem.

The W3C should probably create a new, rich spec hundreds of pages long so that frontend developers may instead declare images as a unitless set of point relationships to be rendered at any resolution without digital artifacts.

For example, instead of working on the pixel level, the developer would be free to simply declare, "an arc may exist in one of these four locations." Then, merely by declaring two further "flag" values, the developer can communicate to the renderer which three arcs not to draw, except for the edge case of no arc fitting the seven previously-declared constraints.

Just imagine-- instead of a big wasteful gif for something as simple as an arc animation, the developer would simply declare, "can someone just give me the javascript to convert from arc center to svg's endpoint syntax?" And someone on Stackoverflow would eventually declare the relevant javascript.

Re:Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique ... by tedunangst on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @08:39PM (#19324866)
The browser can also ship with a pretrained GAN, so the site just asks for a picture of a cat and then the GAN creates one as needed, but nobody will know exactly which cat you saw.
Re:Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique ... by pferde on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:14AM (#19328624)
That will be remembered as day when "Catwoman" went from being sexy to being weird and disgusting.
Re:Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique ... by adrianN on Thursday March 07, 2019 @01:46AM (#19326036)
Now I want to train a GAN that takes images' alt text and reproduces the image.
Re:Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique ... by ringaroll on Thursday March 07, 2019 @01:34AM (#19325999)
I can see where this is heading. LOL
Re:Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique ... by cimmanom on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @08:01PM (#19324686)
Yes, but how do you keep the client from then sending that data to the server?
Re:Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique ... by beatgammit on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @10:16PM (#19325277)
You can't. Even if you block JavaScript, they can still get it from CSS media queries, where the can say which file to download given a certain screen size.

The best solution is to use the same screen size as everyone else so you don't stand out. And that's what this does.

Re:Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique ... by cimmanom on Thursday March 07, 2019 @07:03AM (#19327348)
Right, that’s what I’m saying. Keeping the data client side as ggp suggests is not possible.