[tor-talk] canvas image data

Joe Btfsplk joebtfsplk at gmx.com
Sat Apr 5 18:21:54 UTC 2014


On 4/4/2014 6:56 PM, Gerardus Hendricks wrote:
> On 3/24/14 8:10 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
>> Is it generally NOT an anonymity / privacy issue to play HTML5 content
>> in TBB?
> I haven't seen reports on the fingerprinting implications of HTML5 video
> and audio tags. I would like to read them. Here is a paper on browser
> fingerprinting using the canvas element:
>
> http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~hovav/dist/canvas.pdf
>
> Demo here:
>
> https://www.browserleaks.com/canvas
Thanks for links.  I'll check them out.  I thought there'd surely be 
more replies to this topic, since many use HTML5 instead of Flash, most 
TB users see the popup about sites trying to use the canvas & many are 
interested in fingerprinting.
If there were other replies, I didn't get them.


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