Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in Firefox Nightly and Beta
I agree with the general sentiment in the comments that this is good -- fingerprinting in particular is something browser vendors should be trying to combat.<p>I am concerned about the approach however; a simple blacklist of fingerprinting scripts may be insufficient, in that non-blocked scripts can still access the data that is used to accomplish fingerprinting.<p>Personally, I would like to see more security around the data that is used for fingerprinting, such as user agent, screen size, window size, loaded plugins, and so on. If this type of information was either protected with permissions, or if bogus values were provided to non-user-whitelisted sites, then it would be far harder to fingerprint users, as there would be less identifiable information to go off of.<p>A less aggressive approach might be to have some kind of notification to the user if a website is accessing many API calls that are commonly associated with fingerprinting. Maybe a site that just wants to know window size is fine, since it might want to render something or select a certain layout, but if a site wants to know a wide variety of different information all at once, that would be a red flag that could be signaled to the user in some way.