Reviews for Canvas Defender
Canvas Defender by Multilogin
16 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14195269, 18 days agoI can't take the ridiculous notifications any more. Half the sites I visit make it pop up ding ding ding ding.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Hex (🐦: @hex), a year agoThis used to be an essential part of my toolkit for privacy on the web, but now generating new canvas noise doesn't change the signature on the test at BrowserLeaks, so I guess it no longer works.
https://browserleaks.com/canvas
By contrast, Firefox's own anti-fingerprinting protection (available since Firefox 120) does work when enabled, although it takes a browser restart to get a new signature on the test. - Rated 1 out of 5by Whetsit Tuya, a year agoit doesn't let you disable its tremendously abrasive notifications
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14301971, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by yenaskithegar, 4 years agoWhen i found out that fsf.com tries to fingerprint me, i know there is something going on in this add on. Take too much memory, target overreach, bunch of ui for psychological effect
- Rated 1 out of 5by KING, 6 years agoDoes not work, https://www.deviceinfo.me/, shows canvas as allowed, not spoofed or blocked.
- Rated 1 out of 5by daniel.mota.leite, 6 years agoDidn't work for me, maybe there is something else blocking it (umatrix, privacy badger), but with this installed and without, the test site show the same fingerprint
- Rated 1 out of 5by zingmars, 6 years agoWhile the idea is nice theoretically, practically this addon isn't all that useful. Apps using canvas for legitimate reasons (i.e. WhatsApp web file upload, draw.io file export) will often have coloured tint (or sometimes it will just break the app completely) on them, which not only affects the web experience, but will also make you trackable. The addon does have a white-list function, but I haven't been able to get it to work. There's also an annoying notification that pops up on every webpage that tries to read your canvas hash and you can't actually disable it.
- Rated 1 out of 5by pedz, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by 田生, 7 years agoIt claimed to be a better solution than "Canvas fingerprint blocking tactics" in its artical. But indeed, it is very easy to be detected. By drawing a large gray (#666) block and read its content, browsers without this extension installed will report all pixels are gray. But with this extension, You would get a green / red / blue or some other colored pixels. And by testing the changing of colors, website may simply know a user is using this extension. As the result, this extension won't be better than a canvas fingerprint blocking tool as it claimed. While there are more users using tools to block a fingerprint (as a built-in of Tor browser), using this extension would be even a worse idea.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThe article you mentioned was written almost 2.5 years ago. Since then new technologies emerged and we also wrote additional articles clarifying questions around canvas fingerprinting.
We also work on perspective technologies for protection from canvas fingerprinting, see a video presentation here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSTFf-xKmE0 - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14082665, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by BRW, 7 years agoNot working with gmail on Firefox Linux 57.0.3 (64-bit). Gmail loads about 3/4's of the way on load bar and stops. With Canvas Defender disabled, gmail loads ok.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13167162, 8 years agoWas a real PIA troubleshooting all my extensions to see which one was making gmail unusable. You would think the dev would at a minimum test compatibility with gmail.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Bob Smith, 8 years agoIn use without issue since v1.0.6 (5 Stars!), 1.1.0 breaks google and several web sites so far. Need to whitelist mail.google.com, drive.google.com, etc. (merely google.com doesn't work). And bankofamerica.com as one example. It's too tedious to figure out a site needs it and then entering it manually. Reverting to 1.0.9. Thank you.
- Rated 1 out of 5by sonabe, 8 years agogot error:
Current canvas noise hash
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Last changed: (Scheduled change: )
did not show # and canvas.