heavyboots (@heavyboots@mastodon.social)
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Attached: 2 images Since I’m the idiot learning this by filing bug reports, I thought I’d pass it on to all other #FireFox users on here. If you enable resistFingerprinting in about:config, the web site will start showing you weird stripy graphics anywhere an HTML5 canvas graphic would be generated. To fix this for sites you trust is to click on the tiny graphic icon to the left of the URL and allow use of your HTML5 canvas. Big thanks to the patient Bugzilla guys for dealing with my bug report and the solution.

My apologies to the Bugzilla team for wasting their time holding my hand on this one. Would have honestly never noticed the little “HTML5” info icon to the left of the URL bar though without their help.

  • @junepf
    15•3 months ago

    Yes, that is one method to resist canvas fingerprinting, but only resist it. Notice the portion about GPU performance testing, that would work even if the data was fuzzed. The best method seems to be to return fake data that changes frequently, but even that is contested.

    Here’s a good document with other methods (but not focusing on just canvas fingerprinting): https://2019.www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#fingerprinting-linkability

    For what it’s worth, Firefox does protect against canvas fingerprinting by default it seems. I am not exactly sure how, however.