WebGL Fingerprint Defender

Serega007

2022-02-25

Ломает большинство сайтов где используется WebGL, например на гугл картах, карта просто становится чёрной, при посмотре улиц вокруг непонятные точки с волнами, онлайн браузерные игры вовсе перестают адекватно работать

pogue972

2021-08-11

I mostly use this extension in my primary browser, Opera (as Opera is on the Blink engine, which is based on Chromium, it can install Chrome extensions) and boy could it really use some options. I realize I'm posting this as a review for the both Chrome & Opera, but many of the criticisms still apply to both.

Firstly, when I went to install this extension in Chrome (to write this review) I got an error that popped up from Google that said "This extension is not trusted by Enhanced Safe Browsing" and gave me a link to learn more which sent me here: https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/answer/2664769

Second, my god the notifications and sounds. In Chrome I assume you can disable this. In Opera, unfortunately you cannot. So, the constant popups and beeping gets OUTRAGEOUS on some websites I visit. I filed a bug report on this with the author of the plugin but still haven't heard back.

Third, this should be optionally combined with the author's other plugins - Canvas Fingerprint Defender, Font Fingerprint Defender, & Audiocontext Fingerprint Defender. The author makes another plugin I use called Privacy Tweaks I use as well, because it has optional geolocation blocking and spits out a random timezone to the websites you're visiting. Besides that, it's a pretty standard ad + tracker blocker. I don't know why he can't make another optional "defender" type plugin that would defend against all that other stuff without separating them. If anyone knows one that blocks all these, please let me know in the comments below. The author has separate extensions for geoblocking and timezone switching, so I don't know why he couldn't combine all these defender plugins into one single extension.

Fourth, yes, as many people have mentioned, this - and the other defender plugins need a pause/disable button and a whitelist. That should be standard for any kind of extension of this type. Any kind of privacy extensions that blank block content on all websites is simply not acceptable. Some websites just won't operate if you're blocking this type of content and so a whitelist is MANDATORY! Otherwise you have to go into extensions, disable it, do your surfing, then go back and turn it back on.

Finally, sites CAN detect this as a spoofed WebGL value, as opposed to a fake one. When you click on the extension under your extension tabs or the icon you have pinned and choose "What's my fingerprint?" It takes you to this website: https://webbrowsertools.com/webgl-fingerprint/ where the value for "Is browser webgl fingerprint spoofed" reads "true". Ideally, this would read "false" as it would send fake WebGL packet to the server and not come back detecting it as spoofed, making your browser look suspicious in the eyes of some web hosts.

Damien J

2021-07-19

excellent work