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Re:Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique ... by ringaroll on Thursday March 07, 2019 @01:30AM (#19325976)
This will cause a permissions fatigue. Only the most sensitive things should have permission. The usage of these capabilities is large enough that it should not be behind a permission.
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Re:Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique ... by CharlesColeman on Thursday March 07, 2019 @11:24AM (#19329308)
If we went down this path, I think that the any permissions dialog would come at the end of a very long PR campaign and feature ratcheting to get developers to update their sites to not need the permission unless absolutely necessary. Sort of like what's happened with the deprecation of Flash.
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