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Re:Betterfox: User.js to harden Firefox and optimize privacy... by autoexec on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @09:42PM (#36781215)
> Can you point to anything specific that reduces the attack surface?

I haven't had a chance to dig though those configs yet, but disabling things like service workers, webgl, normandy/experiments, pocket, and webrtc would be a good start at reducing attack surface

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Re:Betterfox: User.js to harden Firefox and optimize privacy... by throwaway290 on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @02:02AM (#36782626)
All of that also makes you easier to fingerprint. How many people disable WebGL?
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Re:Betterfox: User.js to harden Firefox and optimize privacy... by Beldin on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @03:16AM (#36783039)
Enabling WebGL makes you a lot more fingerprintable than having it disabled. See e.g. How gullible are web measurement tools? A case study analysing and strengthening OpenWPM’s reliability. B. Krumnow, H. Jonker and S. Karsch. In Proc. 18th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT’22). ACM, pp. 171–186, 2022. (Table 3).
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