Blocking of canvas and system font fingerprinting

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Blocking of canvas and system font fingerprinting

Unread post by user108 » 2017-11-01, 22:33

Hello

These are great features in the TOR browser:
* canvas fingerprint blocking:
https://www.bleepstatic.com/content/posts/2017/10/30/CanvasFingerprinting.png
* system font fingerprint blocking:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/firefox-52-borrows-one-more-privacy-feature-from-the-tor-browser/

Thanks and all the best

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Re: Blocking of canvas and system font fingerprinting

Unread post by Nigaikaze » 2017-11-01, 22:54

user108 wrote:* canvas fingerprint blocking:
Pale Moon introduced a canvas "poisoning" option way back in version 25.6.0.
user108 wrote:* system font fingerprint blocking:
There have already been a few discussions about this. Search the forum for prior threads on this subject.
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Re: Blocking of canvas and system font fingerprinting

Unread post by Moonchild » 2017-11-02, 01:34

All of this has already been discussed before; please take a moment to do forum search.
TOR browser may have additional anti-fingerprinting measures, but the inevitable drawback of it at the same time is that it will cripple the web by disabling features that are in use by websites for good reason.
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Re: Blocking of canvas and system font fingerprinting

Unread post by dark_moon » 2017-11-02, 08:30

Firefox have this too, but yeah: Pale Moon have canvas spoofing so thats better then.

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Re: Blocking of canvas and system font fingerprinting

Unread post by Max1964 » 2017-11-22, 21:23

you can check your fingerprint here:

https://panopticlick.eff.org/


I have nearly the same finerprint with old Palemoon (26.5.0) or Firefox ESR (52.5,0)

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