So by revealing your real canvas fingerprint, you only fall within the same segment of users who have the same hardware setup. Remember!В In the real world, canvas fingerprint hashes are not unique,В since multiple copies of your machine setup exist elsewhere in the world.

Setting the mode to Off can be advantageous in cases where websites react badly to 100% unique or blocked canvas read-outs. When Canvas masking is set to Off, websites will see the real canvas fingerprint of your machine. MultiloginВ allows you to control the canvas fingerprints of your browser profiles by providingВ three different modes of operation: Noise, Off, and Block. You can check what information about your canvas the websites can retrieve from Browserleaks' test. A more detailed overview on how Canvas FingerprintingВ works can be found on our blog here. After the image is drawn, it is converted into a hash string, which is further used as additional entropy in identification. This image will be drawn slightly differently on various machines, but will be the same if machines are identical. In summary, canvas fingerprinting works by asking the browser to draw a hidden canvas image. According to Englehardt and Narayanan (2016), a study done byВ Princeton University, more than 5% of websites use canvas for fingerprinting purposes. Canvas test - Hardware: AudioContext вЂ‹ - Hardware: WebGL - The great myth of canvas fingerprinting - How canvas fingerprint blockers make you easily trackable - Everything you need to know about canvas fingerprinting - Checking Canvas fingerprint on 100+ devices (video) - What to do with hardware fingerprints? Discussing Canvas, WebGL, and AudioContext (video)Д¬anvas is an HTML5 API that is used to draw 2D graphics and animations on a web page.ДЄpart from its intended functions, Canvas can also be usedВ as additional entropy in browser fingerprinting.

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