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Re:Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique ... by function_seven on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @07:00PM (#19324286)
What CSS file did the browser fetch? The one for screens less than 500px wide? Or the one for screens that are 504px wide?

There are a million ways to exfiltrate UI parameters through JS and CSS. It’s hard to both prevent that and still allow JS and responsive pages.

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Re:Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique ... by trumped on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @07:13PM (#19324376)
just grab them all... not a huge deal, they are so small.
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Re:Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique ... by function_seven on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @07:36PM (#19324542)
Okay. Those different css files all specify different images on the server, depending on the media query. Are we downloading all those images as well?
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Re:Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique ... by trumped on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @07:38PM (#19324559)
right... developers suck, overall ( I could not reply to the comment below because nyc would not let me)
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Re:Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique ... by SmellyGeekBoy on Thursday March 07, 2019 @04:40AM (#19326747)
It's more a case of the web being used in ways in which it wasn't really originally intended. Of course developers can implement things poorly and create problems (and often do) but demand for things like responsive sites is user-driven in my experience.

If you don't understand how the web works and actively dislike the community I don't understand why you keep commenting here.

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Re:Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique ... by trumped on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:23AM (#19328717)
it's all good my little monkey.... also tell me why most websites use files from 20 different domains if you understand the web so well....
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