- From: Mike O'Neill <michael.oneill@baycloud.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:57:27 +0100
- To: "'Rigo Wenning'" <rigo@w3.org>, <public-privacy@w3.org>
If the response to canvas and other forms of fingerprinting is an arms-race with browsers and their extensions, the web will turned into a war zone and be ruined for everybody. This is why we need a meaningful DNT that people trust. Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: Rigo Wenning [mailto:rigo@w3.org] > Sent: 21 July 2014 17:43 > To: public-privacy@w3.org > Subject: Canvas fingerprinting > > https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/persistent/index.html > > There was a lot of discussion around canvas and whether it was the right > choice. It may also be the right choice for browser to give users the > option to turn all those nice new features off if they do not want to be > spied upon. To what extend do browsers trust the origin? I think we are > in a field with lots of shades of gray. > > Otherwise we are left surfing the Web with Amaya if we want privacy. > Amaya knows no cookies, no javascript, no canvas. This can turn into an > advantage.. > > --Rigo
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