Firefox prefs: privacy.resistFingerprinting VS privacy.fingerprintingProtection?

user_pref("privacy.resistFingerprinting", true);

RFP: 3.3 Overrides [To RFP or Not] · arkenfox/user.js Wiki · GitHub
Also: Firefox's protection against fingerprinting | Firefox Help
And also: Security/Fingerprinting - MozillaWiki

user_pref("privacy.fingerprintingProtection", true);

See the amount of damage your fingerprint can cause if you leave it open to the web: Browser Fingerprinting in 2022: How to Stay Private

Your fingerprint (FP) stays with you across browsers, websites, Operating Systems and networks. It’s specific to you.

a browser fingerprinting technique that can track users not only within a single browser but also across different browsers on the same machine. Specifically, our approach utilizes many novel OS and hardware level features, such as those from graphics cards, CPU, and installed writing scripts. We extract these features by asking browsers to perform tasks that rely on corresponding OS and hardware functionalities.

  • Cao, Y., Li, S. and Wijmans, E. 2017. (Cross-)Browser Fingerprinting via OS and Hardware Level Features. Proceedings 2017 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (San Diego, CA, 2017).
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