I thought I was eating an onion… Nope.

Omg. Calibri… Didnt catch that the first time around lol

Its not against you, dont worry. Its against shady NordVPN business practices.

“We used NordVPN” (with an affiliate link)…

In essence: It makes it random. (Hence fingerprinting checkers find the ID uniqiue")

Although sometimes you need some features that interfere with it. I use the add-on “Toggle Resist fingerprinting” to easily toggle it off when I want a website to draw canvas (canva.com is a funny example lol) and then toggle it back when I’m done.

Some nice things, but it can interfere with some daily use cases: Timezone is changed to UTC. Canvas shows random data.

Nice rabbit hole read: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting

(Its like Wikipedia. You can’t stop clicking on links to find out more xD)

EDIT: fingerprint.com probably use Cookies and/or localstorage so the ID is the same when refreshing, but Firefox have protection in place for cross-site tracking and cookie sandboxing, etc (I won’t pretend like I know how everything work), but those protections helps against that type of services from what I recall.

I finally made a Lemmy account just to comment on this 😅

When this option is active, of course your fingerprint is unique because of how it works.

Every time a website fingerprints you with this option turned on, firefox makes sure that the ID is as unique as possible, so no correlation can happen. 😊 Verify this by visiting that site two times and check the hash to make sure it change between the two requests.

EDIT: fingerprint.com probably use Cookies and/or localstorage so the ID is the same when refreshing, but Firefox have protection in place for cross-site tracking and cookie sandboxing, etc (I won’t pretend like I know how everything work), but those protections helps against that type of services from what I recall.