Browser tracking through "canvas fingerprinting"

Posted Jul 29, 2014 19:52 UTC (Tue) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641)
In reply to: Browser tracking through "canvas fingerprinting" by mathstuf
Parent article: Browser tracking through "canvas fingerprinting"

This solves it.

The tracking you should be the most "afraid" of, is the cross-site kind which usually all use other domains.

So yes, something like RequestPolicy solves it.

Browser tracking through "canvas fingerprinting"

Posted Jul 29, 2014 21:20 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

That's good. I think the only things I'm missing from RequestPolicy are wildcard whitelisting (e.g., sites using cdnX.foobar.com) and auditing (a Lightbeam-like interface for what *would* have happened without it (AFAitCT at least; deep links would be lost, understandably).