I think it's great that Firefox is finally doing more to combat fingerprinting. For a long time, they lagged a bit behind Brave in this regard. That said, unfortunately, neither browser has been able to do anything about Cloudflare Turnstile yet. Kagi, for example, uses it to fingerprint users.
Can you please tell whoever it is at Mozilla to stop working on that.
This feedback isn't directed at any one person but that proposal impressively suffers from the simultaneous problems of Being Way Too Fucking Complicated and Proposing to Make the Web Better but Actually Making it Way Worse (for Everyone Except Entrenched Megacorps). It's the exact same problem that Google's "anonymous ad attribution" attestation swarms suffered, and luckily that never came to pass.
From looking at the pictures in that article, it seems like to browse "protected" sites (aka, most of the corporate-owned web, once they are aware that this exists and turn it on because "bots bad") by browser is going to have to negotiate for some scant amount of "allowed access" tokens or other such thing.
The further we allow the Web to stray from cURL http://example.com Just Working, the worse off we all are. So to reiterate, this proposal looks insane and not at all aligned with Mozilla's mission...
I'd like to have some of the APIs that read the data used to fingerprint browsers be behind a confirmation dialog per site similar to allowing popups or microphone/video access.
> Oh, I see that you'd like to read the canvas pixel data, let me check if that's okay with the user first.
I'm on desktop Firefox v160.0 and I've never seen a permission dialog like that and under settings I see:
Permissions
Manage what websites can access, control, or trigger.
Location
Camera
Device apps and services
Local network devices
Microphone
Speaker
Notifications
Autoplay
Virtual reality
None of those seem to be for accessing canvas data.
One caveat I’ve experienced with Firefox branches that focus on privacy is I get “punished” with captchas from hell because I refuse to let websites siphon and prey on every last bit of private info. Hopefully this doesn’t succumb to the same issue.
I'm tired of identifying buses or stoplights or motorcycles up to five times a day just for Google searches. I'm slowly moving myself over to LLM queries instead.
Why do you want to use services that use such captchas? It’s like going to a club and complaining about the door policy. Don’t go if you don’t like it.
Unless I'm misreading the post mentions that the most recent change was added to version 145 which released last year. Personally I haven't had any issues with cloudflare as a firefox user since then with strict mode enabled.
Surveillance fingerprinting will only end with major changes to the web.
If you are among those capable of 3rd order thinking or even just 2nd order thinking, and consider what kind of world you want to live in, you may already know that these changes must happen, even if that means the functional web is bifurcated for a while.
Are you talking about a return to a web of one-to-one connections, no broadcasts?
Actually the problem isn't broadcasts but reverse broadcasts. A broadcast sends one signal to all interested listeners - the problematic mode of the web is one listener getting all interested signals, which allows spam and propaganda (which are the same thing) to flood that set. Is there a word for this reverse broadcasting idea?
Maybe you can use your second-order thinking to consider how people might react to a sentence that starts “if you are among those capable of 3rd order thinking.”
(I do work at Mozilla but not on any of this.)
As Reddit's API used to.
Don't want to? Tough, they'll do it the hard way and put more load on your servers and your countermeasures will drive away more humans than bots.
Of course our current bot plague doesn't understand this and seems to be optimizing for maximum server load, which is still bad.
This feedback isn't directed at any one person but that proposal impressively suffers from the simultaneous problems of Being Way Too Fucking Complicated and Proposing to Make the Web Better but Actually Making it Way Worse (for Everyone Except Entrenched Megacorps). It's the exact same problem that Google's "anonymous ad attribution" attestation swarms suffered, and luckily that never came to pass.
From looking at the pictures in that article, it seems like to browse "protected" sites (aka, most of the corporate-owned web, once they are aware that this exists and turn it on because "bots bad") by browser is going to have to negotiate for some scant amount of "allowed access" tokens or other such thing.
The further we allow the Web to stray from cURL http://example.com Just Working, the worse off we all are. So to reiterate, this proposal looks insane and not at all aligned with Mozilla's mission...
> Oh, I see that you'd like to read the canvas pixel data, let me check if that's okay with the user first.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1717671
It links to this post when talking about it: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/fingerprinting-protectio...
If you are among those capable of 3rd order thinking or even just 2nd order thinking, and consider what kind of world you want to live in, you may already know that these changes must happen, even if that means the functional web is bifurcated for a while.
Actually the problem isn't broadcasts but reverse broadcasts. A broadcast sends one signal to all interested listeners - the problematic mode of the web is one listener getting all interested signals, which allows spam and propaganda (which are the same thing) to flood that set. Is there a word for this reverse broadcasting idea?