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Re:Canvas Fingerprinting – BrowserLeaks by IggleSniggle on Sunday October 27, 2024 @01:29AM (#41960074)
I don't buy that cover your tracks applies to the Firefox strategy to privacy. The Firefox strategy is to make your browser incredibly unique every time. If you visit the same website twice, you look very unique but like two totally different visitors. This is effective for real privacy and cover your tracks doesn't account for it well
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Re:Canvas Fingerprinting – BrowserLeaks by uncharted9 on Sunday October 27, 2024 @03:13AM (#41960445)
Cover Your Tracks shows this kind of obfuscation strategy as "Randomized Fingerprint", but it only shows it for Brave, not for Librewolf when I tested it. Brave fingerprint is unique but it randomizes, while Firefox doesn't.
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Re:Canvas Fingerprinting – BrowserLeaks by akimbostrawman on Sunday October 27, 2024 @04:55AM (#41960894)
having a unique fingerprint in a group (such as tor browser / resist fingerprint enabling browser) can be better than a individually semi random unique one
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Re:Canvas Fingerprinting – BrowserLeaks by IggleSniggle on Sunday October 27, 2024 @07:55PM (#41966645)
It's a setting in Firefox that is off by default because it can make some websites super annoying to deal with. But it's easy to get to, and allows you to be totally random per request or per tab-session, iirc
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