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Apple wont give gyro data but firefox will, firefox wont give battery data but chrome will. Everyone gives screen size and density data.

Why are these data points not discussed with privacy?

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[–] crow@leminal.space 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I have no answer to your question, but if you're looking for alternatives, hardened Firefox forks such as LibreWolf, Fennec, IronFox etc all have varying degrees of anti-fingerprinting features. I know for sure that Fennec withholds battery and gyro data, but gives timezone data, while IronFox can spoof the latter with a toggle and reports a spoofed screen size

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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I must try these, the only one I found was fennec, it did give accurate gyro information.

[–] crow@leminal.space 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Weird, my Fennec must've had additional configurations I forgot about since it didn't give out that info. I uninstalled it for IronFox so I can't check it! I mentioned LibreWolf but that's on desktop, so no gyro info there

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder what else the desktkps see. Where do you get ironfox?

[–] crow@leminal.space 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

IronFox from here:

https://github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox

desktop should "leak" more or less the same data, I think

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Balls, it wont install "couldnt find a suitable release"