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by jeroenhd 337 days ago
> What is the downside

Just of the top of my head:

- Timezone is set to UTC which means any web calendar input becomes confusing at best

- Canvases turn into random stripes, which leaves artefacts all over many websites

- Some websites outright block you as bots (twitch does this)

- Some web APIs break, which can be a pain if you're web apps that rely on them

You can add websites to a whitelist to avoid the downsides on some sites (privacy.resistFingerprinting.exemptedDomains) but it's a pain to do that for every website.
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Szpadel 337 days ago
other downsides, cloudflare, PayPal and all kinds of finance related sites will assign high threat level for you and you will make your life miserable for causes ranging from captcha through rejecting your purchases to even blocking you access.

and the worst part is that this didn't changed the fingerprint generated by mentioned here site just increases suspect level to 9

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Workaccount2 337 days ago
The solution I use is to have two browsers, one bolted down and the other mostly untethered.

After a while you develop and intuition for which browser to use depending on what you will be doing.

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jeroenhd 336 days ago
I haven't encountered too many problems with Cloudflare yet. Having a dedicated (rather than CGNAT), non-rotating IPv4 address and IPv6 subnet to access the internet probably helps.

resistFingerprinting does seem to work against fingerprint.com in my experiments after clearing its website data and a browser restart.

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gruez 337 days ago
>and the worst part is that this didn't changed the fingerprint generated by mentioned here site

???

It definitely does. Are you talking about how it doesn't change between subsequent visits?

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Szpadel 337 days ago
In my case it stayed the same, but I tested it on android Firefox, maybe it works better on desktop, but I do not have access to it right now to verify
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gruez 337 days ago
You probably need to quit/force close and reopen. At the very least it randomizes your canvas results and timezone, which should mess with most fingerprinting sites.
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keyringlight 337 days ago
The biggest one I've noticed which I think is linked to that preference is sites using Cloudflare sending you into an endless loop of a bot check.
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