Canvas Fingerprinting Will Track You Everywhere You Go. Here’s Why You Should Be Worried

There’s a new way for advertisers to track you. And there’s almost nothing you can do to stop it. It’s called Canvas Fingerprinting, and it can be found on almost five percent of the top 100,000 websites, from Whitehouse.gov, to dating site Plenty Of Fish. It allows websites to ‘fingerprint’ the browsers of their users, and then uniquely identify (within a significant margin of error. We’ll talk about this later) and track them without the use of browser cookies. The privacy concerns surrounding Canvas Fingerprinting are many, and severe. Perhaps the biggest concern surrounding it is how it can easily...

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