Firefox gets some new fingerprint protections

Discussion in 'other software & services' started by stapp, Nov 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM.

  1. stapp

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    https://www.ghacks.net/2025/11/11/firefox-gets-some-new-fingerprint-protections/
     
  2. Brummelchen

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    What's the point of adding fingerprint protection, when Firefox itself is spyware? :gack:
     
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    You referring to this?
    https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1fpv45x/comment/lp0f1wy/?context=3
     
  5. Brummelchen

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    still a lot of story-telling on the run. (i would call it BS)

    PPA is only a measuring how many (if) ads of mozilla themselves and its possible (!!!) partners. result is returned to mozilla, not elsewhere.
    if - turning of telemetry, which is an official setting, means: no ppa.

    some good news - firefox is not vulnerable to "brash", chromium based are, also Brave and Vivaldi.
    my smiling cant be wider...
     
  6. Sampei Nihira

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    I ran some tests on these new anti-fingerprint protectors:

    Protection 1 should be verified; I was unable to do so.
    Protection 2 is very partial.
    Protection 3 is quite absurd.
    Protection 4 is irrelevant or does not work.
    Protection 5 actually works, but I have some doubts about its real usefulness.


    Another unclear fact is that the protections seem to work only in Strict mode.
    They also work for me in Custom mode.

    So, in my opinion, there is little clarity.
     
  7. Brummelchen

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    (1) (canvas blocking) is working, but currently i have no clue where and which one is altered.
    (2) any browser do, except some forks/modified doubtful variants. basically it has no impact, its just an information, most fonts are chosen by css. except some want your browser to crash with a vulnerable font. which not applicable to firefox.
    (3) what?
    (4) is most common needed because modern pages have switches concerning window width/height, proper showing content, not only because of user agent. -> accessible settings for disabled persons. cant go more worth when broken.
    (5) who cares? cores are countable, but if browser is set to single core, it wont help.

    faking settings in general has no advantage. faking special data is welcome.
     
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