Navigateur: Firefox's protection against fingerprinting
https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/firef ... =inproduct"... Like other browsers, Firefox’s functionality is influenced by your operating system, hardware, graphics cards, additional software and even the fonts you install. Some website technologies, like HTML5 Canvas, can even uniquely identify you based on how your computer draws images.
Some websites, particularly those using HTML5 Canvas, look at this unique combination of factors and assign you a number, or a “fingerprint”, which makes you identifiable across the Web. This “fingerprint” is potentially used to profile you for targeted content without the use of cookies.
Currently, Fingerprinting Protection is an experimental feature that is under heavy development in Firefox. It is likely that it may degrade your web experience, so we recommend it only for those willing to test experimental features.
How am I protected?
If a website tries to extract your data, Firefox will warn ..."
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