HTML5 Canvas Fingerprinting Blocking/Spoofing Extensions are now NFG in Vivaldi. 😱

ybjrepnfr

@npro i use that in my dedicated session wipe profile, but explicitly, deliberately, not in my daily profile for numerous convenience reasons.

Catweazle

@npro, yes, desirable that Vivaldi also has a better anti-fingerprint, but anyway the Canvas Blocker make a good job.
In Firefox and forks you need an extension to block ads, in Vivaldi an extension to fake fingerprints.

ybjrepnfr

snicker, anew.

yet another canvas fingerprint. i can/have now blocked it in my gecko browsers, but what about the poor benighted chromium, & now especially vivaldi, users?

https://browserleaks.com/http2

ImaginaryFreedom

@npro said in HTML5 Canvas Fingerprinting Blocking/Spoofing Extensions are now NFG in Vivaldi. :

In the meantime in Floorp...

Is this popup a default floorp thing or generated by an extension?

Thanks

npro

@ImaginaryFreedom said in HTML5 Canvas Fingerprinting Blocking/Spoofing Extensions are now NFG in Vivaldi. :

Is this popup a default floorp thing or generated by an extension?

Default. It's this -> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-against-fingerprinting (that can be triggered also by an extension).

Catweazle

@ImaginaryFreedom, I use this

ImaginaryFreedom

@npro said in HTML5 Canvas Fingerprinting Blocking/Spoofing Extensions are now NFG in Vivaldi. :

@ImaginaryFreedom said in HTML5 Canvas Fingerprinting Blocking/Spoofing Extensions are now NFG in Vivaldi. :

Is this popup a default floorp thing or generated by an extension?

Default. It's this -> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-against-fingerprinting (that can be triggered also by an extension).

Aha. I need to re-familiarize myself with desktop FF. They have a few privacy features that interest me these days, finally.

ImaginaryFreedom

@Catweazle said in HTML5 Canvas Fingerprinting Blocking/Spoofing Extensions are now NFG in Vivaldi. :

@ImaginaryFreedom, I use this

The issue I have with "fingerprint" and "canvas" countermeasures is a lot of them really screw up website functionality to the point where they are more hassle than they're worth. Or they are resource-eaters inside the browser itself.

Which is why I rarely use FF forks like Librewolf and such because of all those hassles. You randomize all those things and then a bunch of ecommerce sites etc think you're a malicious hacker or something.

Bad enough that I already have to constantly be subjected to things like captchas because of all the content blocking I do.

npro

I check it from time to time, still not working with any of those fingerprinting extensions: https://browserleaks.com/canvas , signature is always the same.

Catweazle

@npro, the best is Trace Privacy, in the test it shows an unique Fingerprint, but everytime another one. That is the trick. But sadly abandoned by the dev since years, due personal problems, and in the store in the blacklist as Mv2 extension.

You can download it and install in Developer mode, so Google can't delete it
https://github.com/jake-cryptic/AbsoluteDoubleTrace/archive/master.zip

Maybe Vivaldi can use something from its script
https://github.com/underrobyn/AbsoluteDoubleTrace

npro

@Catweazle said in HTML5 Canvas Fingerprinting Blocking/Spoofing Extensions are now NFG in Vivaldi. :

the best is Trace Privacy, in the test it shows an unique Fingerprint, but everytime another one.

strange, it still shows the same Signature here with a clean Vivaldi profile (and refreshing the webpage obviously). I'll check the rest later.

Catweazle

@npro, I used Trace in the past, until the developement stopped 4 years ago, I don't know if it still works, but I remember this results, see advanced settings in it.
The links in the Github page to the FAQ, PP and Homepage are all death, only the above mencioned link to the zip with the script still works.

npro

@Catweazle said in HTML5 Canvas Fingerprinting Blocking/Spoofing Extensions are now NFG in Vivaldi. :

I don't know if it still works, but I remember this results, see advanced settings in it.

If you don't know that it works against canvas fingerprint because it is abandoned and whatnot -it does not work either from the chrome webstore nor from its github page - then why do you post it? To protect Vivaldi by spreading misinformation?

So, the most popular -working in Chromium, Opera, Brave- extensions against canvas fingerprinting mentioned in the original post continue to not be working only in Vivaldi.

Catweazle

@npro, not my intention to spread misinformation, as said I used it in the past with the mentioned results. Now I tested in Browserleaks this and all other Fingerprint extensions and it's very strange that none of these seems to work in Vivaldi. This is a very bad thing.

Edit: Already creepier, I also tested userscripts as extension without results.
Fingerprint randomize, blocking or spoofing don't work in Vivaldi, always the same unique fingerprint number.

ybjrepnfr

@Catweazle said in HTML5 Canvas Fingerprinting Blocking/Spoofing Extensions are now NFG in Vivaldi. :

Fingerprint randomize, blocking or spoofing don't work in Vivaldi, always the same unique fingerprint number

Gee, if only the OP had thought of saying this.