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The Firefox hardening project Arkenfox only recommends uBlock Origin. Everything else is redundant.
Note that this is targeted to arkenfox users, who by default use privacy.resistfingerprinting (unlike most users); without it, canvasblocker is also recommended.
Couldn't one just set privacy.resistfingerprinting to true instead of using another addon?
I suppose that I can be leaving some other (like disabling webgl), but in principle yes. The bad thing is that this setting can be annoying, it does things like change the time zone, force the light theme, always start in window, among many others.
it's strange for them to specifically choose the light prefers-color-scheme instead of ignoring it completely. So if a website has a dark default interface with an optional
prefers-color-scheme:light, it will use the light interface ignoring the default.Seems counterintuitive
Oh, I didn't realize it had other side effects. Maybe I'll just keep using JShelter then.
This is wrong. By enabling privacy.resistFingerprinting you cannot make yourself more unique in Firefox because you’re already unique. I would read this guide by the Arkenfox project about fingerprinting. The guy has worked for the Tor browser, so he knows his stuff. The summary is that the privacy.resistFingerprinting is the best tool that Firefox has against fingerprinting, but it can only ”fool naive scripts.” If you’re really worried about fingerprinting and want to defeat advancing fingerprinting, the only option is to use either Tor or Mullvad Browser depending on your threat model.
You seem to be right. i misunderstood exactly how
privacy.resistFingerprintingworked.I currently use JShelter because that seemed to be the app of choice among r/privacy users
Is CanvasBlocker better?