Canvas fingerprinting

Canvas fingerprinting is one of a number of browser fingerprinting techniques for tracking online users that allow websites to identify and track visitors using the HTML5 canvas element instead of browser cookies or other similar means.[1] The technique received wide media coverage in 2014[2][3][4][5] after researchers from Princeton University and KU Leuven University described it in their paper The Web never forgets.[6]

  1. ^ Obaidat, Muath (2020). "Canvas Deceiver - A New Defense Mechanism Against Canvas Fingerprinting". Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. 18 (6): 66–74.
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