Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users worldwide

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  • AmIUnique

    Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet

    Enabling this did weird things to web sites. But it didn't seem to help. Before I enabled it, according to https://amiunique.org I was unique among the 1646592 fingerprints in their entire dataset. After enabling it, I was unique among the 1646593 fingerprints in their entire dataset.

  • privacytests.org

    Source code for privacytests.org. Includes browser testing code and site rendering.

    Total Cookie Protection partitions all cookie-like data ("state") between the websites you visit, not just cookies. For a technical discussion, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privacy/State_P...

    You can see which browsers partition state (and which don't) in the State Partitioning section of https://privacytests.org. Firefox passes nearly all of those tests because Total Cookie Protection is enabled by default.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  • fingerprintjs

    Browser fingerprinting library. Accuracy of this version is 40-60%, accuracy of the commercial Fingerprint Identification is 99.5%. V4 of this library is BSL licensed.

    https://fingerprint.com/

    I also tried setting privacy.resistFingerprinting = true in Firefox, but it's sad to see that most websites become unusable (most sites using canvas just render a green/purple mess), zooming in Google Maps is basically broken (skips several levels at a time), and like others have mentioned dark mode and time zones also stop working.

    What a mess the (somewhat private) web is nowadays. The more I think about it, the more I am convinced legislating privacy is the only way out of this arms race we seem to be losing.

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