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| First-party isolation in Firefox: what breaks if you enable it? (ctrl.blog) | ||
| recommended by 1 user | 2018 | 347 points by fanf2 | browsers | original thread | | ||
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| floatingatoll Sep 9, 2018 | on: Firefox about:config privacy settings | context |
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Presuming intimate knowledge of second- and third-order consequences from seemingly-innocuous preference changes is guaranteed to be a losing bet, even among tech enthusiasts and experts.
I missed the high risk resist-fingerprinting setting and had no idea it would cause so many problems. Those problems certainly are not documented in the gist and I would have fallen prey to them if I had applied it unaware.
Advanced knowledge is not the issue. Misrepresented knowledge is the issue. A document about “privacy settings” contains non-privacy settings and does not contain any mention of the lasting harmful side effects due anyone who uses any of the settings within it.
EDIT: This is how to approach changing one of these settings with the respect and care due to such a suggestion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17944991