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Canvas Fingerprinting

Date 2014-07-23 13:33 +1000
From Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Canvas Fingerprinting
Message-ID <ALidncldm4pesFLOnZ2dnUVZ_tGdnZ2d@westnet.com.au> (permalink)

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As I understand it, advertisers can use js to draw a canvas graphic that 
is read as a "token" and sent to the server ie canvas fingerprinting. It 
uses data it gets from the browser, OS... to create the not quite unique 
fingerprint.

Why bother with using canvas why not just use js to send the data 
directly to the server?

Andrew Poulos

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Canvas Fingerprinting Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-07-23 13:33 +1000
  Re: Canvas Fingerprinting Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-07-23 15:23 +1000
    Re: Canvas Fingerprinting Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-07-23 17:48 +1000
      Re: Canvas Fingerprinting Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2014-07-23 18:43 +0000
        Re: Canvas Fingerprinting Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-07-24 08:39 +1000

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