Reviews for Toggle Resist Fingerprinting
Toggle Resist Fingerprinting by Aaron Papp
13 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by flage256, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by PlusInsta, 2 years agoExcellent for pesky websites that don't let you continue if RFP is on, such as Epic Games Store. Turn off your protection for just long enough to log in and get things done, then turn it back on so you aren't left vulnerable longer than you have to.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16331411, 3 years agoA simple extension that is excellent at doing exactly what it says it does. In spite of the simplicity of its function, the quality of life improvement that this extension provides is actually rather substantial. Though I don't need to toggle RFP too often, *when I do* this extension really comes in handy, making it far quicker and easier to do so. It even works on mobile! I'm very glad that this extension exists.
- Rated 5 out of 5by thieum4, 3 years agoNot working on Firefox 95 (no icon in the address bar ...)
Edit: Thanks for the support ! I am using sideberry.Developer response
posted 3 years agoBy default the icon is places in the tab bar. If you are using an extension that hides or modifies the tab bar you will need to temporarily enable the default tab bar in order to see and move the icon. If you are using the default tab bar and the icon isn't showing up then something unusual is going on and will need to be troubleshooted. Please make an issues here https://github.com/Aaron-P/ToggleResistFingerprinting/issues to discuss it. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14528670, 4 years agoThree different sites were able to fingerprint my browser with this extension installed and activated. The main one being EFF foundation at https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
Developer response
posted 4 years agoI'm not really sure what you expected this extension to do, all it does is toggles on or off Firefox's built in "resist fingerprinting" setting which attempts to reduce the uniqueness of the data gleaned by fingerprinting methods. You can go here for a list of what that mode does: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting#Technical_Details
The only sure way to prevent most fingerprinting techniques is to disable JavaScript on the sites you visit, either by setting javascript.enabled = false in about:config, or using an extension like NoScript or uMatrix; even then there are still some methods to get identifying data without JavaScript. Some other methods can be spoofed by doing things like faking canvas API call responses, but the efficacy of those methods is questionable and you can't spoof everything.
Even with this extension and multiple others, most user agents are going to be fairly identifiable. If it is that much of a concern to you then you should look at using something like the Tor browser bundle. - Rated 5 out of 5by tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt, 4 years agoThe tool is really, really nice. I tested it with different site to check it: it works. It is easy to use, since you can switch it on and off with one button! Great work.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Luke, 5 years agoWorks perfectly, simple and lightweight. If possible in the future, a configurable whitelist for the sites RFP breaks would be nice.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoSince resist fingerprinting is a global setting I'm not sure how feasible a whitelist would be. It would essentially have to work that resist fingerprinting is completely disabled if a whitelisted site is open, then re-enabled if all whitelisted sites are closed, which may be pretty confusing for people who don't really understand that limitation. If there is interest in that I could work on it, please make an issue on the github repo if you want. - Rated 1 out of 5by Dark Poison, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SvetoslavB, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cybo1927, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14511734, 5 years ago