In this article, we go over the basics of canvas fingerprinting, and how you how to use JavaScript to create your own canvas fingerprinting library.

Recently, the number of conversations about confidentiality and the ethics of tracking users has been growing rapidly, with the reselling of user’s data to advertising agencies becoming an excellent way to monetize data. Google and Facebook bring in billions of dollars using data which you send to them for free. Everything that you do on the network will be used with one target – earning money off of you. Some people were discouraged by this fact and tried to eliminate companies like Google and Facebook from their Customer/Advertising chain using ICOs – but that’s a completely different story.

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