Thursday, July 24, 2014

Like it or not you are being (canvas) fingerprinted

Unless you are using TOR(Browser)


It is sad there is not much choice against Canvas fingerprinting.
As usual browsers will find a solution and after a few months , there will be another way to track us


(From the article)


A lot of sites use AddThis, so a lot of users are being tracked, the article/research states 5% of the top 100,000 websites. So at least 5000 high traffic sites are capturing user data in this rather underhanded way.


It’s all pretty shady, but honestly we have to assume people are doing this type of stuff because one of those most valuable things you can create from the Internet is user data. Especially usage/consumption patterns, even if it doesn’t tie to specific humans – the data itself is very valuable to people making marketing decisions based on it.


The link below has more information:-


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