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I feel conflicted about this. On one hand canvas being client side will always lead to cat and mouse game where fraudsters can always generate required "answer"
by AndrewThrowaway 2y ago
I feel conflicted about this. On one hand canvas being client side will always lead to cat and mouse game where fraudsters can always generate required "answer". On the other hand innocent users will always be fingerprinted by ad networks and similar.
- jonatron 2y agoThe purpose is important, if my fingerprint is used to detect fraud (eg my browser has just tried 100 other credit cards), I'm less bothered than if cloudflare are reading my fingerprint then blocking me viewing a web page for no good reason.
- Ukv 2y agoCastle.io's customers seem to include marketing platforms, and their listed use-cases include preventing account sharing and alt accounts. Can understand why a company would want to be able to uniquely identify users, but also from a user/privacy perspective it's something I'd very much like my browser/extensions to block.
- jgalt212 2y agoDetecting account sharing is a tricky business. It's pretty easy to detect if one account is using two different machines. But it's quite hard to unambiguously say it's one person using both machines or two different people each using one machine each.