So, if you’re scared of Canvas Fingerprinting, and you’re not blocking it using AdBlock Plus, there’s another way to deal with this privacy menace. Simply avoid sites that use it. How do you do that? Here’s a list of 5,619 website have used the technology during May 1-5, 2014 created by a group of researchers that looked into this technology. Besides porn sites, 48 government sites have Canvas Fingerprinting code as there are .gov domains listed here. That’s very unsettling.
Also, if you’re the curious type check out the project website for background information about canvas fingerprinting and other advanced tracking mechanisms such as ever cookies and use of “cookie syncing” in conjunction with ever cookies. It will make you not want to surf the Internet.
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Here’s A List Of Sites That Do Canvas Fingerprinting…. All 5,619 Of Them
So, if you’re scared of Canvas Fingerprinting, and you’re not blocking it using AdBlock Plus, there’s another way to deal with this privacy menace. Simply avoid sites that use it. How do you do that? Here’s a list of 5,619 website have used the technology during May 1-5, 2014 created by a group of researchers that looked into this technology. Besides porn sites, 48 government sites have Canvas Fingerprinting code as there are .gov domains listed here. That’s very unsettling.
Also, if you’re the curious type check out the project website for background information about canvas fingerprinting and other advanced tracking mechanisms such as ever cookies and use of “cookie syncing” in conjunction with ever cookies. It will make you not want to surf the Internet.
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