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[–] PinkiePieYay2707@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Very good to see these changes, but could somebody explain this one to me? I don't understand how that helps with fingerprinting protection...

The available screen resolution is the screen height minus 48 pixels.

[–] GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] Sophocles 7 points 1 week ago

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.

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