Does we really need canvas fingerprinting in saidit? I find it in Reddit, too.

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Can you provide some background info on this? We're into less invasive tracking it if doesn't wreck features like rate limiting. Reddit does have some extreme analytics going on.

[–]RavAshi[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

DDG has it too.

I think it is a norm to every site which needs a login to participate.

Pale Moon with CanvasBlocker Legacy extension or Firefox with CanvasBlocker extension.

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I found a Reddit post where they say this fingerprinting is part of the shadowban system, to carry a shadowban on to the next account. I'll dig up the code and see if it can be disabled.