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Re:Block Fingerprinting with Firefox by remus on Thursday May 30, 2019 @08:21PM (#20057215)
> On Tor big contributors are hash of webGL fingerprint, screen size.

Doesn't tor randomise the window size on startup? Though I guess it chooses some sensible size for your screen which is then leaking info about your screen size (in a pretty indirect way).

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Re:Block Fingerprinting with Firefox by abdullahkhalids on Friday May 31, 2019 @06:15AM (#20059604)
Not quite correct. It automatically picks the browser window size based on the monitor its being displayed on, in some multiple of 200x100. There is no randomization on every run.

https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/15705/why-does-tor-b...

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Re:Block Fingerprinting with Firefox by privateprofile on Friday May 31, 2019 @04:03AM (#20059044)
That's false. Tor Browser actually advises the user to keep the window at the default size to avoid it being used as a fingerprinting vector.
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