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LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM. If you have any question please visit our FAQ first: https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/

To learn more or to download the browser visit the website: https://librewolf.net/

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why would my privacy settings mess with this? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/librewolf@lemmy.ml

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Screenshot of a pop-up. It reads:

Color Inaccuracies Detected.

We have detected that your browser may have issues with color accuracy.

You may notice subtle visual noise and incorrect colors appear in your skins.

This issue is usually caused by anti-fingerprinting privacy settings in your browser.

Learn how to fix [with a hyperlink to a help page]

this screenshot was taken on Miners Need Cooler Shoes

does anyone know what would cause this precisely? why would anti-fingerprinting mess with the colors i use to edit an image in the browser?

i'd be tempted to brush this off as the website being malicious and lying to get me to deactivate fingerprinting protection, but the website is fully open-source and what they describe happened to me on Piskel (a pixel art editor, which would constantly mess up my colors in subtle but annoying ways)

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[–] Moxvallix@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

Developer of NeedCoolerShoes, the site in question here. Yes, absolutely correct, spot on! For anyone else interested in researching this more, the technique is called farbling.

In fact, as my tool also has layers, this subtle noise would compound with each additional layer added, until the noise was not subtle at all.

I received many bug reports about this, and it took me ages to track down the root cause, by asking users what browsers they were using and joining the dots.

I do worry that maybe I worded the popup poorly leading some more skeptical folk to worry my site was attempting to fingerprint them, which it is not.