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I have no answer to your question, but if you're looking for alternatives, hardened Firefox forks such as LibreWolf, Fennec, IronFox etc all have varying degrees of anti-fingerprinting features. I know for sure that Fennec withholds battery and gyro data, but gives timezone data, while IronFox can spoof the latter with a toggle and reports a spoofed screen size
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I must try these, the only one I found was fennec, it did give accurate gyro information.
Weird, my Fennec must've had additional configurations I forgot about since it didn't give out that info. I uninstalled it for IronFox so I can't check it! I mentioned LibreWolf but that's on desktop, so no gyro info there
I wonder what else the desktkps see. Where do you get ironfox?
IronFox from here:
https://github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
desktop should "leak" more or less the same data, I think
Balls, it wont install "couldnt find a suitable release"
I installed it by adding their repo to F-droid and it worked, try that