My issue with canvas fingerprinting and, well, any other fingerprinting is that it makes the situation even worse. It plays right into the hands of data brokers, and is something I've been heavily fighting against, and simply don't visit any website that doesn't work in my browser that's trying hard not to be fingerprintable.

Just now there is an article on the front page of programming.net about how are data brokers boasting to have extreme amounts of data on almost every user of the internet. If the defense against bot will be based on fingerprinting, it will heavily discourage use of anti-fingerprinting methods, which in turn makes them way less effective - if you're one of the few people who isn't fingerprintable, then it doesn't matter that you have no fingeprint, because it makes it a fingerprint in itself.

So, please no. Eat away on my CPU however you want, but don't help the data brokers.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Wanting to not get fingerprinted is totally fair. I'm just stating what will and won't work at scale. But please understand, you're ability to view the internet anonymously is wholly equivalent to a bots.