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But that's referring to privacy.resistFingerprinting (RFP), not adding randomness. RFP isn't really an option, at least for me, because it breaks too many sites.


>But that's referring to privacy.resistFingerprinting (RFP), not adding randomness

having a randomized fingerprint is a fingerprint value in and of itself. That may leak more entropy bits if you have a fairly common hardware configuration

Also, regarding webaudio fingerprinting, afaik it's not a real threat.

https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/pull/2224#discussi...

https://github.com/w3cping/tracking-issues/issues/53#issueco...

>As I said, I can't use RFP, it breaks too many sites.

Weird. I only know a few sites that break with RFP on, and I don't use them frequently.




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