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		everdrive on April 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Are top websites using WebGL for fingerprinting? Hmm, would disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox provide any privacy benefit, then?

srg0 on April 17, 2021 [–]

if you're the only person in the world who has disabled hardware acceleration, you will be uniquely identified by not having hardware acceleration

everdrive on April 17, 2021 | [–]

I’ll bet a lot of computers have it disabled: VMs, perhaps Tor Browser, kids who tweak settings for no good reason.

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