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Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta (tuta.com)
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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Letterboxing has significantly reduced threat presented by window sizing. https://support.torproject.org/glossary/letterboxing/

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't quite understand -- does this feature let you resize the window again to the size you want, and you are still sharing the same fingerprint with everyone else? Or do you still have to keep the browser window the default size to minimize your unique fingerprint?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It rounds the browser window to the nearest 100x100 window size. Using the default will likely be the biggest dataset to hide yourself in, but maximizing the window will still have some amount of obfuscation.

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