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Welcome to the official community for LibreWolf.

LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM. If you have any question please visit our FAQ first: https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/

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LibreWolf doesn't resist fingerprinting effectively (without Canvas Blocker extension) (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Fingerprint.com allows you to test web fingerprinting. This is a more advanced method of tracking individuals throughout the web without the need of cookies.

~~Mozilla~~ The Tor Project developed a pretty effective ~~toll~~ tool against this called resistFingerprinting. It can be enabled in about:config. LibreWolf has this feature enabled by default. Sadly, it doesn't really work.

On Firefox you can visit fingerprint.com in a private window with resistFingerprinting enabled and after closing the private window and visiting fingerprint.com again, there will be a new id meaning that you have not been tracked.

~~On LibreWolf you can do the exact same thing but the same id will show up every time. Is there a way to configure LibreWolf to be more effective at resisting fingerprinting?~~

On LibreWolf you can do the exact same thing but the same id will show up everytime. To get the same functionality as Firefox you need to install the Canvas Blocker extension.

Original title of this post: LibreWolf doesn't resist fingerprinting effectively

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This feels like the solution is in the definition of the problem. Why not stick to Firefox?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LibreWolf has some nice things going for it. A lot of privacy stuff is pre-configured and it saves time that way but yeah, if stuff like this simply doesn't work I'll be going back to Firefox asap

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@illectrility @Illecors Some website logins don't work e.g.duolingo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is an extension that adds a button to toggle the fingerprinting resistance. You can look for it at about:addons