Privacy-Preserving Canvas Fingerprinting
Disclaimer: This post is more of a write-up and note-taking for my own exploration of HTML5 canvas fingerprinting and privacy-preserving techniques. How accurate are HTML5 canvas fingerprints? According to AmIUnique, only about 0.73% of users share the same canvas fingerprint as I do, highlighting its uniqueness. Canvas fingerprinting is a technique widely used in ad tracking and user identification systems and has recently been explored in risk-based authentication research 1. While there is extensive research into detecting and mitigating canvas fingerprinting, few studies have examined just how privacy-invasive these techniques are in practice....