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>I've blocked web features like WebGL and Canvas behind prompts

what extension does this? there's plenty that disables it outright, but is there one that shows a prompt?



Firefox settings. Fingerprint resistance (privacy.resistFingerprinting) will auto-reject the canvas and show a relatively non-intrusive icon in the address bar that lets you re-enable it for that website[0].

Since webGL requires you to use canvas, this should also block that attack, although I'm currently going a step farther and disabling webGL entirely (webgl.disabled), since I've seen a few sites (panopticlick for example) get around the prompt specifically with webGL, and I don't know how they're doing it.

Firefox's fingerprint resistance efforts are showing a lot of promise, although you will have to put up with some quirks (like learning to read UTC time).

[0]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-agai...


I know there's a prompt for canvas, but it doesn't seem to work for webgl. On a fresh install with fingerprint resistance enabled, webgl fingerprinting appears to work fine[1].

[1] https://browserleaks.com/webgl




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