1948556 - Arch Linux: fingerprinting protections cause artifacts on YouTube Videos

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1947590

(Core :: Privacy: Anti-Tracking, defect)

Description

[Elliot L]

Attachment: This is a screenshot of the artifacting that occurs when playing back YouTube videos

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. On Arch Linux, go to Firefox about:config
2. Enable all settings related to resistFingerprinting (canvas, pbmode, etc)
3. For fingerprintingProtection, enable it and in overrides add +AllTargets.
4. Go to YouTube, or restart the browser then go to YouTube and click on a video.

Occurs on Floorp 11.23.0 (Based on Firefox 128) and the latest Firefox (Firefox 135).

Actual results:

There were horizontal lines across the bottom half of the video that changed color whenever the video was resized.

Expected results:

There should have been no lines blocking the YouTube video.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Privacy: Anti-Tracking' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Mayank Bansal]

This looks like a dupe of bug 1947590