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Feature Request: Hide/Fake screen resolution. #266

Open clort81 opened 4 years ago

clort81 commented 4 years ago

A common fingerprinting identifier is browsers reporting the user's screen resolution and bit depth. This is not the browser window resolution, and there's no need for the web server to know it to format text appropriately.

Running a browser on an unusual device or nested X server resolution will expose fingerprinting information to websites.

Firefox anti-fingerprinting fails to fake screen resolution to a commonly used resolution (e.g. 1920x1080).

Could Privacy Possum be enhanced to report fake screen resolution? Browser gurus, please chime-in with your comments.

Thank you

dione2 commented 4 years ago

How is it going? No you were perfectly fine

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020, 11:03 AM clort81 notifications@github.com wrote:

A common fingerprinting identifier is browsers reporting the user's screen resolution and bit depth. This is not the browser window resolution, and there's no need for the web server to know it to format text appropriately.

Running a browser on an unusual device or nested X server resolution will expose fingerprinting information to websites.

Firefox anti-fingerprinting fails to fake screen resolution to a commonly used resolution (e.g. 1920x1080).

Could Privacy Possum be enhanced to report fake screen resolution? Browser gurus, please chime-in with your comments.

Thank you

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clort81 commented 4 years ago

I meant comments pertinent to the issue I raised.

dione2 commented 4 years ago

How do I hide the fake resolution? And how is it fake if you can see it. It must have another purpose that isn't very helpful to me huh

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I meant comments pertinent to the issue I raised.

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