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Status: New idea

Hi,

Given the now not-so-recent discovery that favicons can be used to track and de-anonymize users (see sources below), is it possible to add a toggle in the Settings menu to quickly disable favicons from loading?

I know that this exists as an experimental feature Configuration Editor (about:config), but I think it might be a good idea to move it / promote to the main Settings menu so its easier for more users to take this mitigation step, should they decide to do so.

Sources:

Research paper by University of Illinois at Chicago that brought this mainstream attention: https://www.cs.uic.edu/~polakis/papers/solomos-ndss21.pdf

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Status changed to: New idea
Jon
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jscher2000
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I haven't noticed those preferences and I'm not sure what they are for.

Firefox tends to focus on protecting against cross-site tracking. I don't know whether this technique can be used for cross-site tracking.

justinwwww
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thank you