Closed Bug 1408825 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Do not ask for HTML5 canvas permission if privacy.resistFingerprinting is true

Categories

(Core :: Graphics: Canvas2D, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Graphics: Canvas2D
Version:
58 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox58 --- affected

People

(Reporter: etrapani, Assigned: tjr)

Details

(Whiteboard: [tor][fingerprinting][fp:backlog])

Firefox asks if I want to allow HTML5 canvas extraction for each site that wants to access that information. Since I have privacy.resistFingerprinting set to true, I'd expect Firefox to never allow access to that date.
So this is working as intended, we want to prompt the user (Bug 967895 and Bug 1382111). However we want to improve this to only prompt you for post-page-load requests (Bug 1376865) - which will (hopefully) cut down on the prompt fatigue and only show the prompt when it's being used for an actual purpose (like image editing). We also intend to add a 'Learn More' page (Bug 1397757)
Assignee: nobody → tom
Component: Tracking Protection → Canvas: 2D
Product: Firefox → Core
Priority: -- → P3
Whiteboard: [tor][fingerprinting][fp:backlog]
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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