ADIL 🦂 丰 ₿ ⚡ on Nostr: Necessity is the mother of invention. And you know who is even more cunning in ...
Necessity is the mother of invention. And you know who is even more cunning in invention? Various corporations that come up with methods of tracking you. I have already talked many times about the dangers of JavaScript and various technologies for creating a digital trace. It is created by browser extensions that track you, your screen resolution, your operating system time and much more.
But there are more exotic trackers. Although I thought that tracking through fonts would remain unrivaled. I have never been so wrong in my life. I present to you canvas tracking, namely the creation of a unique user trace through the canvas HTML markup tool, as strange as it may sound. This infection creates a separate folder for you and assigns a number so that all the sites you visited could identify you. And, what is fucking characteristic, without the use of cookies. At all!
How does it work? Let's start with the fact that canvas tracking is a synthesis of surveillance using hardware and software. Simply put, two computers with different hardware render the same image slightly differently. This is due to differences in image processing both due to hardware (different video cards and drivers for them) and software (the order in which the browser processes fonts and smooths them out), etc. In other words, it is a much more advanced technology. According to various sources, it is used by about 5.5% of popular websites on the Internet. But my heart tells me that it will continue to spread.
How to check yourself? Go to BrowserLeaks. Com and go to the corresponding section. If you do not use an anti-detect browser, you will find your unique signature there. By the way, Browser Leaks has a whole bunch of privacy checks, try them, I recommend.
How to protect yourself? Just block scripts. So be sure to use the right browser. The best ones are LibreWolf or Mullvad. I wrote about them earlier. The first one blocks all attempts to collect a fingerprint, and the second one replaces them with the standard fingerprint of the user of this browser. Be sure to go to the shield settings and make sure that you block scripts. And then this threat is no longer a threat to you.
Stay safe everyone!
But there are more exotic trackers. Although I thought that tracking through fonts would remain unrivaled. I have never been so wrong in my life. I present to you canvas tracking, namely the creation of a unique user trace through the canvas HTML markup tool, as strange as it may sound. This infection creates a separate folder for you and assigns a number so that all the sites you visited could identify you. And, what is fucking characteristic, without the use of cookies. At all!
How does it work? Let's start with the fact that canvas tracking is a synthesis of surveillance using hardware and software. Simply put, two computers with different hardware render the same image slightly differently. This is due to differences in image processing both due to hardware (different video cards and drivers for them) and software (the order in which the browser processes fonts and smooths them out), etc. In other words, it is a much more advanced technology. According to various sources, it is used by about 5.5% of popular websites on the Internet. But my heart tells me that it will continue to spread.
How to check yourself? Go to BrowserLeaks. Com and go to the corresponding section. If you do not use an anti-detect browser, you will find your unique signature there. By the way, Browser Leaks has a whole bunch of privacy checks, try them, I recommend.
How to protect yourself? Just block scripts. So be sure to use the right browser. The best ones are LibreWolf or Mullvad. I wrote about them earlier. The first one blocks all attempts to collect a fingerprint, and the second one replaces them with the standard fingerprint of the user of this browser. Be sure to go to the shield settings and make sure that you block scripts. And then this threat is no longer a threat to you.
Stay safe everyone!