IT Home September 13th news, technology media Windows Report released a blog post yesterday (September 12th), reporting that in the latest Chrome 142 browser version of the Canary channel, Google has added a new privacy protection function to curb "canvas fingerprinting" tracking methods.
IT Home Note: "Canvas Fingerprint" tracking refers to a browser fingerprint recognition technology that generates a unique user ID by allowing the browser to draw hidden images and read pixel data using slight differences presented by different devices.
In the Canary channel's latest Chrome browser, Google introduced an experimental flag called "Block Canvas Reading in Traceless Mode" to curb "Canvas Fingerprint" tracking.
After the user is turned on, the browser will prevent the website script from reading the data of these invisible images and directly throw an error, cutting off this fingerprint recognition method from the source, making the traceless mode more in line with the user's expectations for privacy in actual use.
The traceless mode has long been regarded as a way to avoid web pages from recording browsing history, but technologies such as fingerprint recognition have weakened its protection. Google's improvement this time is in response to users' demand for higher anonymity. If the test results are ideal, this feature is expected to become popular in the stable version, bringing additional privacy protection to users.
