This morning, I posted a story about Canvas Fingerprinting. A method of online tracking that is impossible to detect and impossible to stop. Well, AdBlock Plus who makes a tool to allow you to surf the web without getting ads the like says they can stop Canvas Fingerprinting and cookies for an added bonus. They have a blog post that goes into detail about what Canvas Fingerprinting is and how it works. Then they tell you how they can help:
When you add the EasyPrivacy filter list in Adblock Plus this won’t make Adblock Plus block tracking cookies directly. Instead, Adblock Plus will block the script that would try to set these cookies. And guess what: blocking that script doesn’t just prevent cookie-based tracking, it also lets you deal with canvas fingerprinting or evercookie or any other tracking approach. In particular, the rules to prevent AddThis tracking were added to EasyPrivacy almost five years ago.
Now I haven’t tried this so I can’t vouch for whether this works or not. Thus I would like to see a third party test this out empirically to see if it does work. If it does, perhaps we’ll feel safer when surfing the web…. Until the next person finds a way to monitor your activities without you knowing about it and being unable to stop them.
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AdBlock Plus Claims It Can Stop Canvas Fingerprinting
This morning, I posted a story about Canvas Fingerprinting. A method of online tracking that is impossible to detect and impossible to stop. Well, AdBlock Plus who makes a tool to allow you to surf the web without getting ads the like says they can stop Canvas Fingerprinting and cookies for an added bonus. They have a blog post that goes into detail about what Canvas Fingerprinting is and how it works. Then they tell you how they can help:
When you add the EasyPrivacy filter list in Adblock Plus this won’t make Adblock Plus block tracking cookies directly. Instead, Adblock Plus will block the script that would try to set these cookies. And guess what: blocking that script doesn’t just prevent cookie-based tracking, it also lets you deal with canvas fingerprinting or evercookie or any other tracking approach. In particular, the rules to prevent AddThis tracking were added to EasyPrivacy almost five years ago.
Now I haven’t tried this so I can’t vouch for whether this works or not. Thus I would like to see a third party test this out empirically to see if it does work. If it does, perhaps we’ll feel safer when surfing the web…. Until the next person finds a way to monitor your activities without you knowing about it and being unable to stop them.
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