Canvas fingerprint check

1. What is my canvas fingerprint?
2. How unique is canvas fingerprint?
3. How does Canvas Fingerprinting work?
4. How do I check my browser fingerprint?

What is my canvas fingerprint?

What is canvas fingerprinting? It is a technique used to identify a browser. This method can be used to distinguish a browser, for instance, display personalized advertisements or uniquely identify a browser on the next visit(s) even though a user has no login details available.

How unique is canvas fingerprint?

Uniqueness. Since the fingerprint is primarily based on the browser, operating system, and installed graphics hardware, it does not uniquely identify users. In a small-scale study with 294 participants from Amazon's Mechanical Turk, an experimental entropy of 5.7 bits was observed.

How does Canvas Fingerprinting work?

Canvas fingerprinting works by exploiting the HTML5 canvas element: when a user visits a website their browser is instructed to "draw" a hidden line of text or 3D graphic that is then rendered into a single digital token, a potentially unique identifier to track users without any actual identifier persistence on the ...

How do I check my browser fingerprint?

If you wish to check your browser fingerprint, go to the homepage and click “View my browser fingerprint.” Please note, the website will collect your browser fingerprint and put a cookie on your browser for four months to help with their purpose.