Pale Moon 25.6 ships with anti-fingerprinting option

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Pale Moon 25.6 ships with anti-fingerprinting option
by Martin Brinkmann

We talked about a fingerprinting technique using Canvas before and explained how companies make use of the feature supported by all modern web browsers to track users across the Internet.

We also told you how to block Canvas fingerprinting in Firefox and Chrome.

The most recent update of Pale Moon, a Firefox spin-off, introduces a native option in the browser that should make it a lot harder for others to use Canvas to fingerprint the browser.

Tip: If you want to check if a fingerprint may be created of your browser to track you online, check out this online test.

The new Poison Data option is not enabled by default in Pale Moon due to its impact on performance when Canvas is being used in the browser.

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