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ProTip: If you enabled resistFingerprinting, you have to manually allow HTML5 canvas usage per website (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 year ago by heavyboots@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 30 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.ml 4 points 1 year 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.

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