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That’s true (in fact it is now in the “don’t bother” section). Firefox is rolling out a new anti-fingerprinting feature called privacy.fingerprintingprotection (FPP). Arkenfox no longer recommends CanvasBlocker because FPP has made it redundant/unnecessary [if FPP is enabled].

The previous Arkenfox recommendation was:

  • Use privacy.resistfingerprinting (RFP) if you can, if not use the CanvasBlocker extension.

The current Arkenfox reccomendation is:

  • Use privacy.resistfingerprinting (RFP) if you can, if not use privacy.fingerprintingprotection (FPP)

For reference: FPP will become the default in Arkenfox in future releases. (more info on differences between RFP and FPP can be found here, and some context on why the CanvasBlocker recommendation was removed here

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