Reviews for Toggle Resist Fingerprinting
Toggle Resist Fingerprinting by Aaron Papp
2 reviews
- 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 1 out of 5by Dark Poison, 5 years ago