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LESSON 2 · Who's Watching You? Digital Privacy

PAUSE TO THINK

Can a website identify you even in a private browsing window?

Yes — canvas fingerprinting works in incognito mode

When a website draws an invisible image using the HTML5 canvas element, your GPU, driver version, font library, and OS render it slightly differently from every other machine.

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