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HTML5 canvas image data
Posted: 2018-03-06, 14:20
by Phantom
I was using the Tor browser and noticed this message.
Why doesn't Pale Moon have a message like that? Is this website putting HTML5 garbage on my computer and if I were to allow it, where would this data be stored?
Thanks.
Re: HTML5 canvas image data
Posted: 2018-03-06, 14:37
by New Tobin Paradigm
Re: HTML5 canvas image data
Posted: 2018-03-07, 04:55
by SpockFan02
TL;DR, if I understand correctly: What Tor does (returning blank image data) has the potential to break some stuff (although I've never noticed it happening), and Pale Moon already makes the data harder to use to identify you anyway, so Tor's method will not be implemented.
Re: HTML5 canvas image data
Posted: 2018-03-07, 11:09
by Moonchild
What tor does is breaking the web and annoying users with extra messages instead of using smart, transparent ways of stopping tracking, like poisoning the data making it impossible for the trackers to know if it is actually a unique fingerprint or not.
No, we won't be disabling web features because they *can* be abused. Do that and you'll end up with a pointless race to disable more and more until your browsing is a lame excuse of web usage.