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A Firefox extension to protect from being fingerprinted.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2015-02-28 · latest 2026-06-01

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  1. …the CF funnel. Number of websites soaring. Try it yourself https://sereneblue.github.io/chameleon https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker/ and you're increasingly off.
    comment by mornanding · 2026-06-01 · in Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
  2. …a bit more subtle than how resistfingerprinting works but not sure what the privacy tradeoff is. https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker
    comment by 4oo4 · 2026-05-31 · in Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
  3. …fingerprint is a product of all partial fingerprints. Some extensions already implement that, eg. https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker/
    comment by xyzal · 2022-02-21 · in Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
  4. …of canvas fingerprinting. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvasblocker https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker
    comment by commoner · 2019-12-06 · in Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website
  5. …you described. However, it comes at a price: you'll have a harder time with captcha's. [1] https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker/
    comment by Fnoord · 2019-05-30 · in Waterfox Browser
  6. Wonder no longer. There is an add-on for FF called canvasblocker. https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker/releases I have been using it and it makes some websites go nuts and Google CAPTCHA takes forever.
    comment by Tsubasachan · 2019-03-07 · in Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing
  7. Canvasblocker on Firefox. https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker/releases Its a never ending against marketing parasites.
    comment by phobosdeimos · 2018-06-28 · in Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC
  8. …it leads no where for long time. Try Canvas blocker[1] and/or Canvas Defender for fake readout. [1] https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker
    comment by vidyesh · 2018-04-18 · in Facebook Container for Firefox
  9. https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker/releases All ads and tracking can be blocked if you want them to. Its a arms race.
    comment by Feniks · 2018-02-26 · in What I Learned Burning $14k on YouTube Ads for Candy Japan
  10. https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker
    comment by quoiquoi · 2015-02-28 · in Google now automatically converts Flash ads to HTML5