[tbb-bugs] #26610 [Applications/Tor Browser]: investigate whether hardware encoding of media adds fingerprinting risk for TBA

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#26610: investigate whether hardware encoding of media adds fingerprinting risk for
TBA
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     Reporter:  mcs                  |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  defect               |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium               |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/Tor     |    Version:
  Browser                            |   Keywords:  tbb-mobile, tbb-
     Severity:  Normal               |  fingerprinting, ff60-esr,
                                     |  TorBrowserTeam201807
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 As of Firefox 56, Mozilla enabled hardware encoding of media on Android.
 We should investigate whether this adds a fingerprinting vector due to
 device hardware differences. See:
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1386974

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