this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
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I believe that Firefox has a mechanism where millions of users all have the same fingerprint, which makes the whole concept of browser fingerprinting useless.
Catch is you have to enable it manually
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It's under the shield on the left of the address bar, better protection against tracking enables this and a bunch of other features. Also on by default in private mode.
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