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

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Okay I reproduced this in Firefox and did some testing. It's alerting on getBoundingClientRect() as used in bootstrap.tooltip.js and/or jquery-2.1.1.js https://github.com/libertysoft3/reddit-ae/search?q=getBoundingClientRect&unscoped_q=getBoundingClientRect

Also alerting here: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/components/

So at this point these two js libraries are so integral to the site that they cannot be removed. If you want to check and see if newer jquery and bootstrap are cleaner and don't set this extension off, maybe a case for upgrading can be made. But on the bright side I came across none of this shadowban code that does actual browser fingerprinting.