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Very good to see these changes, but could somebody explain this one to me? I don't understand how that helps with fingerprinting protection...
If I had to guess is because you can be tracked by your screen resolution too, It's just a way to minimize that. If you start tor browser, for example, it does not open full screen but only occupy a smaller window, for the same reason
You can be, duckduckgo was accurately profiling my location from resolution. Librewolf has a setting called letterboxing that fixes this, but you have to turn it on in about:config. Once I did, duckduckgo's profile wasn't accurate anymore.
You absolutely can be tracked by screen resolution, especially when using a monitor with unusual resolution (few years ago I was still using 1440x900 so I understand this well). I just don't understand how this specific change would help prevent that.
At one point, years ago, they were talking about removing the screen resolution entirely, and just make it a copy of the window size values instead.
Guessing it broke too much stuff, since it seemed like a nice idea but never eventuated.
Is that why the Surface 7 has such an oddball resolution of 2304x1536?
I don't know how that helps either, since it is a fixed diff. Just pre-check adding 48 to any sus screen resolution you get reported. Enabling letterboxing by default and reporting the screen resolution as the nearest larger "common" size would be a far more practical response.