firefox

Mozilla Firefox has been a privacy-first browser for years and is excellent. Recently I found my way to (yet another page on the excellent) page on the Arch wiki, about Firefox privacy. There I found out about the following setting (which can be modified in about:config) to increase/enhance your privacy to resist fingerprinting even more: privacy.resistFingerprinting The wiki page includes a warning (which, I hoped for, would have been exaggerated). It made me find a bug in the website of a primary school, but also broke DRM playback for a major streaming service.

Usually I’m not logged in to youtube with my Google account, but sometimes you want to, because you want to subscribe to a channel to show your support. When I logged in to my Google account and was redirected back to youtube, I got an oops and was effectively not logged in. Long story short: disabling “Enhanced Tracking Protection” for ‘accounts.google.com’ fixed it for me. Please note: I am using Firefox Multi-Account Containers, which might influenced my situation.