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by bomewish 1139 days ago
Care to elaborate?
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https://browserleaks.com/canvas

Open it in a regular and "incognito" browser tab. This is a long term identifier of your browser which persists across cookie clearing, IP address changes and other ritualistic totems privacy-seeking individuals still inexplicably cling to.

How do one protect against this?
Simply don't allow Javascript.
Unfortunately, even that might not be enough these days with newer fingerprinting methods.