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.

  • Vincent@feddit.nl
    30·
    9 months ago

    And when you do this, you are now more fingerprintable than you were with resistFingerprinting off, as the specific combination of anti-fingerprinting measures and canvas-enablement makes you more unique. Which is why it’s hidden in about:config.

    • heavyboots@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, as stated, only for sites you trust.

      I was enabling it on at a cycling site that uses HTML5 Canvas to make their charts of how long chain lubricants last zoomable, haha.

    • delirious_owl@discuss.online
      2·
      9 months ago

      If you’re fingerprintable and your fingerprint changes every 60 seconds then it doesn’t really matter

      You’re still better off hardening these settings