Archiv: canvas HTML5 data espionage


05.08.2020 - 08:44 [ Firefox Browser Addons ]

CanvasBlocker

Alters some JS APIs to prevent fingerprinting.

05.08.2020 - 08:42 [ Browserleaks.com ]

HTML5 Canvas Fingerprinting

Canvas is an HTML5 API that is used to draw graphics and animations on a web page via scripting in JavaScript.

But apart from this, the canvas can be used as additional entropy in the web browser‘s fingerprinting and used for online tracking purposes.