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Leverage Firefox's upcoming All-in-One Fingerprint resistance #2381

@RoxKilly

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@RoxKilly

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Hello Raymond. You made it clear recently (#2378, #1647) that you don't want to go down the rabbit hole of implementing fingerprint protection because it's a wide and deep endeavor that warrants its own add-on.

I understand. How about one all-encompassing option that puts the burden of implementing fingerprint resistance on the browser? As part of the Tor Uplift project, Firefox devs intend to implement a single config that tells the browser to resist fingerprinting.

privacy.resistFingerprinting = true

The devs will strengthen the effect of this setting over time, a bit like Private Browsing mode. In fact there is discussion on bugzilla about possibly enabling this by default when in Private Browsing mode (same as Tracking Protection). Initially, the discussed effects are:

It does offer some significant protection (including hiding system colors, screen orientation, screen dimensions, device pixel ratio, window position on screen, screen click coordinates, supported mime types and installed plugins) (source)

This alleviates your concern (no need to continually update uBO to block new fingerprinting vectors) while still providing ever-improving protection to users.

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