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0 pointscmeacham983y ago0 comments

They're not that big of a deal, but my two biggest annoyances with RFP:

1. prefers-color-scheme is completely broken, even in the dev tools. Mozilla refuses to fix this in any way, it is allegedly "by design" that you have to disable all RFP protection if you're a web dev and need to test the dark color scheme of your website.

2. Similarly, RFP always vends your timezone as UTC with no way to change.

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arein33y ago

They could add switches for individual features to mask on a hidden/advanced menu

nightpool3y ago

that's a great way to get even more fingerprinting potential, each additional switch is another bit of identification on top of the actual fingerprint itself.

cmeacham98OP3y ago

Mozilla refuses to add _any_ toggle to disable RFP's control over features it touches, including even an about:config entry.

See example bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535189

My "fix" for this involves using a janky old version of an addon that attempts to muck with the CSS/JS to reproduce the effect.

asalahli3y ago

Does adding your website to privacy.resistFingerprinting.exemptedDomains not work?

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