Akshay S Dinesh @akshay@social.learnlearn.in

Doctor-Programmer, Community Health Practitioner, Emergency Medicine Trainer, Consultant Fullstack Engineer, Health-Tech Policy Observer, Medicolegal Consultant

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I had to change a firefox setting after reading this post!

https://www.bitestring.com/posts/2023-03-19-web-fingerprinting-is-worse-than-I-thought.html

Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought - Bitestring's Blog www.bitestring.com
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After changing privacy.resistFingerprinting to true, Firefox had some trouble with displaying non-English characters. I had to revert the change.

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@primejyothi@aana.site any steps to reproduce? I have not had an issue till now

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@akshay

Faced this issue in aana.site.

System Information : Fedora 37, KDE Plasma 5.27.3, Firefox 111.0.1 (64-bit)

Steps to recreate the issue :
- Set privacy.resistFingerprinting to True in Firefox
- Open https://aana.site/@primejyothi/110123247551309789
- The toot is mostly in Malayalam with few numbers and English words. Malayalam characters are not displayed properly.
- Set privacy.resistFingerprinting to False and the problem is resolved

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Malayalam characters not displayed properly when privacy.resistFingerprinting = True
Original text, with privacy.resistFingerprinting = Falze
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@primejyothi@aana.site It could be related to measures to prevent font fingerprinting. https://browserleaks.com/fonts

I have set a default font for Malayalam in settings -> fonts -> advanced and perhaps because of that, I don't get this issue.

On the other hand, funnily, when I went to https://developer.android.com/studio/preview today I got offered the Windows version because of the resistFingerprinting setting.

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@primejyothi@aana.site Look at this:

Your timezone is reported to be UTC Not all fonts installed on your computer are available to webpages The browser window prefers to be set to a specific size Your browser reports a specific, common version number and operating system Your keyboard layout and language is disguised Your webcam and microphone capabilities are disguised The Media Statistics Web API reports misleading information Any Site-Specific Zoom settings are not applied The WebSpeech, Gamepad, Sensors, and Performance Web APIs are disabled

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-against-fingerprinting

Firefox's protection against fingerprinting | Firefox Help support.mozilla.org
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@akshay
Thank you for the information. I had tried to set the the fonts for Malayalam but that didn't work. I guess I will leave it as it is for the time being. Anyway, learned something new :)

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