Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

[Robin Laing]

On 04/02/16 14:01, stan wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Feb 2016 21:47:00 +1030
> Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 10:18 -0700, stan wrote:
>>> I doubt that you are experiencing traditional cookie tracking.
>>
>> Hmm, I reckon they probably still do that.
>
> I'd agree.  But my bank, to increase security, tried to use both a
> regular cookie and an LSO cookie.  Fortunately, I convinced them that I
> shouldn't have to have a third party private app installed to access
> their website, and they removed it.  Or, more likely, made the LSO
> cookie non blocking.
>
> [snip]
>> And there's the rub, these days.  Now that dial-up is dying off, many
>> users have persistent IPs (not quite static, but most likely to keep
>> on using the same IP).  You can't just block something once it's
>> touched you, wipe your cache, and be a new anonymous person on your
>> next session.  And thanks to browsers with tabs, or multiple windows
>> that do not act like isolated programs, one session can last a very
>> long time, as you close your window with your bank, but other windows
>> remain open.
>
> Yeah, I used to have an ISP like that, same IP every time.  Now, my ISP
> gives me a random IP from their range every time I log on to their
> network.
>
> I tend to keep only minimal tabs open, not because of privacy primarily,
> but because I don't like the clutter.  I have read that there have been
> exploits that allowed a website running malicious scripts to gather
> information from other open tabs in the browser, but I think those are
> fixed now.
>
> Once we are using IPv6, though, everyone will probably get assigned an
> IP address at birth, and keep it for their whole life.  :-)  Sayanora
> privacy, and welcome to the goldfish bowl.  Maybe some enterprising
> souls will start a site that operates as a nat or proxy for IPv6, so
> that everything goes through their randomly assigned IPv6 IP addresses,
> and routes the information to the real address anonymously to the
> queried website.
>
>>
>> I wonder if any browsers have a randomiser in them to jiggle the
>> tell-tale signs that browser fingerprinting makes use of?
>
> I'm not aware of a plug in that does that, though I think it is
> possible to change some of the information the browser gives out.  The
> trouble is that website client side apps have to know what's available
> for their use, so they are allowed to query the browser to find out the
> environment they are operating in.  And once they do, they have the
> browser fingerprint. So, the trackers piggyback on that to find the
> environment as a fingerprint.  If the environment is blocked to stop the
> trackers, the legitimate apps won't be able to function properly.
>

I have used "modify headers" plugin off and on.

May be something you want to look at.

Robin