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Updated 3.3 Overrides [To RFP or Not] (markdown)

Thorin-Oakenpants 2022-01-30 11:54:36 +00:00
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@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ If your threat model calls for anonymity and advanced fingerprinting protection,
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🟪 FINGERPRINTING #### 🟪 FINGERPRINTING
If you do nothing on desktop, you are already uniquely identifiable - screen, window and font metrics alone are probably enough - add timezone name, preferred languages, and several dozen other metrics and it is game over. [Here](https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2017/ndss-2017-programme/cross-browser-fingerprinting-os-and-hardware-level-features/) is a link to the results of a study done in 2016 showing a **_99.24%_** unique hit rate (and that is excluding IP addresses). If you do nothing on desktop, you are already uniquely identifiable - screen, window and font metrics alone are probably enough - add timezone name, preferred languages, and several dozen other metrics and it is game over. [Here](https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2017/ndss-2017-programme/cross-browser-fingerprinting-os-and-hardware-level-features/) is a link to the results of a study done in 2016 showing a **_99.24%_** unique hit rate (and that is excluding IP addresses).
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🟪 ARKENFOX #### 🟪 ARKENFOX
**_Arkenfox does not and never has, claimed to defeat advanced fingerprinting_** and does not care if a couple of prefs change stable metrics, because **_you are already unique_** - see the preceding section. **_Arkenfox does not and never has, claimed to defeat advanced fingerprinting_** and does not care if a couple of prefs change stable metrics, because **_you are already unique_** - see the preceding section.
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🟪 RFP #### 🟪 RFP
Due to it's nature, which is effectively breaking web standards whilst protecting 100+ metrics, RFP does cause the odd issue. Due to it's nature, which is effectively breaking web standards whilst protecting 100+ metrics, RFP does cause the odd issue.