#22127: Think about a more elaborate defense against fingerprinting with `hardwareConcurrency` --------------------------------------+-------------------------- Reporter: gk | Owner: tbb-team Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Medium | Milestone: Component: Applications/Tor Browser | Version: Severity: Normal | Resolution: Keywords: tbb-fingerprinting | Actual Points: Parent ID: | Points: Reviewer: | Sponsor: --------------------------------------+--------------------------
Comment (by tom): > The cost for those with computers with more than 1 core could be performance degradation. This will only (potentially) degrade performance for really sophisticated web applications though, right? Games that go "Oh, your PC has 4 cores so I'll spin up 3 WebWorkers to help with the ray tracing in my Canvas-based DOOM clone" or whatever. It wouldn't affect the actual browser... right? -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22127#comment:1> Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/> The Tor Project: anonymity online _______________________________________________ tor-bugs mailing list tor-bugs@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-bugs