[tbb-bugs] #28535 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Think about re-enabling touch events on desktop Tor Browser platforms

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#28535: Think about re-enabling touch events on desktop Tor Browser platforms
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     Reporter:  gk                        |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  task                      |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                    |   Keywords:  tbb-fingerprinting
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 We disabled `dom.w3c_touch_events.enabled` in #10286 as a defense-in-depth
 against fingerprinting while providing a patch to neuter the risk here as
 well. The patch got upstreamed in
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1382499 and made it into
 Firefox 60 ESR.

 We should think about whether we should enable the preference again for
 desktop platforms. We start doing that for Android with #27256.

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