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Re:Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to a... by na85 on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @08:54PM (#31747911)
It's certainly possible to curtail fingerprinting.

Why is my browser reporting my resolution to the server? Why can't you just serve me HTML and let me render it how I damn well please?

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Re:Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to a... by fiddlerwoaroof on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @11:19PM (#31748753)
> Why is my browser reporting my resolution to the server

The browser doesn’t need to report anything by default. You can get a reasonable estimate with CSS + JavaScript (e.g. using media queries to modify some observable properties on the basis of the screen width and then report what those properties are via a call to fetch)

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Re:Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to a... by staticassertion on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @10:22PM (#31748418)
Sounds like a really unique, fingerprintable way to browse.
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