Closed arthuredelstein closed 3 months ago
Suggested QA testing
The webcompat exceptions service UI is disabled by default behind brave://flags/#brave-webcompat-exceptions-service
Once it is enabled, you can visit any web page that calls some fingerprintable APIs. To see the new UI, go to "Advanced controls" under the per-site Shields menu, and click the integer next to "Block fingerprinting" toggle. There should be a menu with some number of toggle switches. For example, https://browserleaks.com/javascript shows 9 fingerprintable APIs that have been called from that website.
Now you can click individual toggle switches to enable/disable specific fingerprinting protections. The web page should reload after each toggle event. Because fingerprinting protections typically change the value that a Web API returns to a page, toggling those individual switches will change value for items displayed on https://browserleaks.com/javascript.
toggle | browserleaks item |
---|---|
device memory | deviceMemory |
font | N/A |
hardware concurrency | hardwareConcurrency |
keyboard | keyboard |
language | languages |
plugins | plugins |
screen | Screen Resolution |
speech synthesis | N/A |
user agent | N/A |
(Changes due to the N/A items are not visible for me on browserleaks.com, on macOS.)
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OS | Windows 11 Version 23H2 (Build 22631.4037)
Block Fingerprinting
setting shows integer 9
off
and on
for device memory
8
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/090c5c99-43e2-489b-9138-31b3b7fa1bf1
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Brave | 1.70.92 Chromium: 128.0.6613.85 (Official Build) beta (arm64)
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OS | macOS Version 14.6.1 (Build 23G93)
Block Fingerprinting
setting shows integer 9
off
and on
for device memory
8
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/011ebae5-7b48-4655-b4db-6b7370b96132
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Brave 1.70.109 Chromium: 128.0.6613.138 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
Revision fec4422ae56f4d9680c71a3c1de60b9a8e5ef32f
OS Linux
Block Fingerprinting
setting shows integer 9
off
and on
for device memory
8
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5971cf96-c5c3-4448-a7f7-6fe003467b5e
Platforms
Linux, macOS, Windows
Description
We are planning to add a user interface for the webcompat exceptions service. See design here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mjdx3Rk2TCXbJRzpYkb3ieGm2MhFXxf4zTGEEropzuY/edit#heading=h.qiew63uicrsj