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Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 14 2018, @05:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the can-you-ID-me-now? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Browser fingerprinting is where JavaScript or other means are used to scrape uniquely identifying information from the browser metadata and functions such as how it draws a canvas object. In it's latest release Apple will defeat browser fingerprinting by making all Mac users look alike to advertisers and websites that use fingerprinting to track users. Apple can afford to do this as it doesn't have skin in the online advertising game.

[This is likely only going to be for the Safari browser. - Ed]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 15 2018, @05:26AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 15 2018, @05:26AM (#721687)

    Mozilla has been doing a bit in this direction for a while. E.g. accepting anti-fingerprinting patches from the Tor project (Tor's "uplift" project to get as much of Tor browser into upstream Firefox as they can).

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 15 2018, @02:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 15 2018, @02:43PM (#721792)

    Palemoon has had inbuilt canvas poisoning for a long time.