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Firefox as a browser is rapidly becoming irrelevant, and it's not "indispensable to web freedom" when they tear down privacy by implementing the Chrome team's privacy disaster APIs in full such as AudioContext and others that are used almost exclusively by fingerprinting scripts running on DoubleClick's distribution network.

Mozilla is complicit in this behavior, and they cave time and time and time again.

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What if I told you that both can be true? Firefox might be both fundamental to Internet freedom, but also losing relevance. Which is a big problem...

Every Web game with sound uses AudioContext. Emulators use it. Etc etc.

Lots of platform features are useful for fingerprinting, unfortunately, because software, but they're not deliberate attempts to tear down privacy.

The prime difference of course is that web games actually play audio, whereas most abusers of this never play audio. Why does a site with no audio need this information with no notification or permission from the user?

I also beg to differ, AudioContext has a horrible security model (it's non-existent). Browsers don't even care if the website even needs it.

The browser can't tell the difference between a site that legitimately "needs Web Audio" and a site that doesn't.

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