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I saw a GitHub repo that explained add-ons that are “useless” and add more finger printing. The biggest reason of them being useless was generally the fact unlock origin already has the feature too.
That’s not just how fingerprinting works. Any setting on your browser that is not default and any addon makes your browser setup more unique. From my understanding they don’t need to access your plugin listing or request settings because they can also do it based off of how the browser behaves. If you disable JavaScript entirely I suppose you wouldn’t have this issue though.
Why would librewolf specifically advise that you minimize your extensions to decrease client uniqueness if it had no effect on client uniqueness? Someone’s misinformed, and I don’t think its librewolf.
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I saw a GitHub repo that explained add-ons that are “useless” and add more finger printing. The biggest reason of them being useless was generally the fact unlock origin already has the feature too.
This is the GitHub repo wiki you are referring to, hopefully helps others declutter their extensions.
https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother
Nice! Stared it this time.
This is factually wrong; as installed plugins aren’t accessible to just any webpage…and plugins actually exist that obscure this anyways.
Not to mention there’s more hardened forks of modern browsers that don’t share plugin information anyways.
That’s not just how fingerprinting works. Any setting on your browser that is not default and any addon makes your browser setup more unique. From my understanding they don’t need to access your plugin listing or request settings because they can also do it based off of how the browser behaves. If you disable JavaScript entirely I suppose you wouldn’t have this issue though.
Why would librewolf specifically advise that you minimize your extensions to decrease client uniqueness if it had no effect on client uniqueness? Someone’s misinformed, and I don’t think its librewolf.