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[–] kbal@fedia.io 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps this will motivate makers of web browsers to finally get serious about making fingerprinting less easy. Looking at you, Mozilla.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mozilla already has anti fingerprint settings.

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yes, but with a few caveats. Last time I used the 'Resist Fingerprinting' option, it made window resizing funky and some sites flat out rendered wrong.
It needs some polish and some user controls.

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago

That's the tradeoff you have to make. Your window size is a good fingerprint, so spoofing the size makes sense. But websites that need to window size for legitimate reasons are breaking.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How else could it be? The window size directly identifies you AND determines the page layout.