- cross-posted to:
- firefox@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- firefox@lemmy.ml
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Screenshot of a pop-up. It reads:
Color Inaccuracies Detected.
We have detected that your browser may have issues with color accuracy.
You may notice subtle visual noise and incorrect colors appear in your skins.
This issue is usually caused by anti-fingerprinting privacy settings in your browser.
Learn how to fix [with a hyperlink to a help page]
this screenshot was taken on Miners Need Cooler Shoes
does anyone know what would cause this precisely? why would anti-fingerprinting mess with the colors i use to edit an image in the browser?
i’d be tempted to brush this off as the website being malicious and lying to get me to deactivate fingerprinting protection, but the website is fully open-source and what they describe happened to me on Piskel (a pixel art editor, which would constantly mess up my colors in subtle but annoying ways)
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as in, fingerprinting mechanisms use the colors that are in my OS’s color picker? or is it other colors?
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oh i see, thank you!
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it is not affected by the display, and this does not mean it tries to fingerprint the user. it only just means that it uses the canvas API for whatever reasons
Your links don’t start with https:// so the Lemmy web interface prepends
[instance domain]/post/huh, that’s a strange behaviour. thank you for telling me, it’s fixed now!
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I find this interesting also. Enabling fingerprinting resistance a) makes every site light mode by default and b) when ssh-ing into my VMs on Proxmox (LXCs not affected), stops me from sending underscores and other symbols.
because a) your browser does not send anymore which color scheme you prefer and b) probably sets a single keymap or language setting that affect websites that try to grab your keys.
add the proxmox domain to the whitelist and it will be better. there’s a pref for it that I can’t recall now but mayne it can be configured in this menu too: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-against-fingerprinting#w_how-do-i-disable-this-protection-for-a-website
let me know if it didn’t fix it and I’ll look up the pref
