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More granular privacy controls (lemmy.fish)

submitted 3 days ago by potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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I run very hardened firefox to prevent fingerprinting, and this often causes issues with websites(e.g. images not loading due to cross site request policies, sites not working due to webgl/webrtc disabled). Is there any way to only allow features on websites in my lan, or ones I select?

Thank you for the answers!

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Install the resist fingerprinting toggle

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Keep in mind that having an extensively customised setup makes you more fingerprintable - just the fact that some things are not visible to a website makes you unique. Generally, most of the defaults will be best for everybody - especially when it comes to options that are not exposed in the UI (i.e. through about:config).

What could be interesting for you is just running uBlock Origin and have it block all JavaScript by default. That'll block most of the scripts that potentially do tracking (and that Firefox doesn't block natively, e.g. because they also provide functionality), and you can relatively easily enable them on a per-site and per-script basis.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There are tradeoffs.

I think you should set your user agent and turn on resist fingerprinting at minimum. Ideal you should install ublock and switch the security settings to strict.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

on my main 'working' pc, i just have two firefox. one regular release channel, locked down pretty tight--scripts don't even run unless allowed, used for the bulk of the internets; and then a developer edition with a different config and different selection of addons that i use for the trusted and internal sites and 'my' stuff.

dev.ed is made to co-exist with 'regular' firefox; can even run both at the same time without any hoop jumping as dev.ed profiles are separate.