<story><title>Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-add-tor-browser-anti-fingerprinting-technique-called-letterboxing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>newscracker</author><text>Every time there&amp;#x27;s something about online privacy with browsers, it&amp;#x27;s mostly Firefox or Safari. I wondered if Chrome had resisting fingerprinting on its radar (guessing that it wouldn&amp;#x27;t be in Google&amp;#x27;s interests to add any feature that would thwart profiling users online), and I found this [1] confirming my guess (emphasis mine):&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Since we don&amp;#x27;t believe it&amp;#x27;s feasible to provide some mode of Chrome that can truly prevent passive fingerprinting, &lt;i&gt;we will mark all related bugs and feature requests as WontFix.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t read all the analyses in the links in that article, but this sounds defeatist and lazy, much unlike a stance that Chromium would take on security or performance on the web.&lt;p&gt;Contrast the above with what this article says about Firefox:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Firefox&amp;#x27;s upcoming letterboxing feature is part of a larger project that started in 2016, called Tor Uplift.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Part of Tor Uplift, Mozilla developers have been slowly porting privacy-hardening features developed originally for the Tor Browser and integrating them into Firefox.&lt;p&gt;If you value online privacy, your best choice is Firefox (though it requires some additional manual configuration). Safari comes second (its extensions directory could use more love). &lt;i&gt;The choice where you can add more of your influence to is Firefox — by using it, evangelizing it and by donating (if feasible) to it.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chromium.googlesource.com&amp;#x2F;chromium&amp;#x2F;src&amp;#x2F;+&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;security&amp;#x2F;faq.md#Why-isnt-passive-browser-fingerprinting-including-passive-cookies_in-Chromes-threat-model&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chromium.googlesource.com&amp;#x2F;chromium&amp;#x2F;src&amp;#x2F;+&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;docs...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-add-tor-browser-anti-fingerprinting-technique-called-letterboxing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>meruru</author><text>I recommend the privacy.resistFingerpriting about:config mentioned. It&amp;#x27;s been available for a while and does other things too, like changing your user agent.</text></comment>