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Disable Hardware Acceleration to avoid fingerprints
* Not needed since FFmpeg 3.0 is here, which allows hardware acc. anyway even if you disable it directly with about:config (just use right click to enable it if you want it) * This needs to be disabled also (if in use) in Adobe Flash/Macromedia to avoid Canvas fingerprinting for font's * Hardware Acc. doesn't perform well on some systems, which should better controlled by driver settings to override it (if you want) Research: * http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FFmpeg-3.0-Released * https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/09/hardware-acceleration/ * https://www.google.com/patents/US20120215896 (just an example for device identification on networks) * several already mentioned Tor papers about this
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