[tor-commits] [sandboxed-tor-browser/master] Revert "Force disable `navigator.sendBeacon()`."

yawning at torproject.org yawning at torproject.org
Wed Aug 30 03:06:35 UTC 2017


commit 881b68c816b29db3b62388c5619fc7c9a5981983
Author: Yawning Angel <yawning at schwanenlied.me>
Date:   Wed Aug 30 03:04:17 2017 +0000

    Revert "Force disable `navigator.sendBeacon()`."
    
    This reverts commit 8ccea0137d87d049c0f09ece7428942af78b7570.
    
    I need to think about this more.  While I still think the call is
    basically only used to make tracking people easier, if mainline Tor
    Browser doesn't disable it, this will impact the user anonymity set.
---
 ChangeLog                  | 1 -
 data/installer/mozilla.cfg | 4 ----
 2 files changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 52fa881..0bf64e8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Changes in version 0.0.13 - UNRELEASED:
  * Bug 13170: Disable the rest of the Firefox experiments botnet prefs.
  * Use lockPref for the IDN override done as part of #22984.
  * Unset the addon autoupdater URL prefs.
- * Force disable `navigator.sendBeacon()`.
  * Disable the "Open with" dialog, which will never work.
 
 Changes in version 0.0.12 - 2017-08-01:
diff --git a/data/installer/mozilla.cfg b/data/installer/mozilla.cfg
index 867da7b..5170c02 100644
--- a/data/installer/mozilla.cfg
+++ b/data/installer/mozilla.cfg
@@ -49,9 +49,5 @@ lockPref("network.IDN_show_punycode", true);
 // Services is misguided at best.
 defaultPref("dom.securecontext.whitelist_onions", false);
 
-// Force disable navigator.sendBeacon() which basically only exists so that
-// people can track the fuck out of you.
-lockPref("beacon.enabled", false);
-
 // Disable the "Open with" dialog, which will never work.
 lockPref("browser.download.forbid_open_with", true);



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