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  • Canvas rendering differs slightly depending on a lot of factors like operating system, browser, installed fonts, and many others. This information can be used to uniquely identify and track your machine across the web, even if you have stuff like cookies blocked and switch IPs. Just outright blocking canvas access attempts to prevent this. Keep in mind that while it can help prevent against canvas tracking, it can also be used as yet another variable to uniquely identify your browser, ‘has canvas blocking enabled’, just like blocking cookies, do not track requests, etc…


  • Luckily, other browser manufacturers (Mozilla, Vivaldi, Brave, and even the WWWC) have already spoken out against this proposal. Google loves marketing it as ‘optional’, which it obviously won’t be once implemented. A system like this would be very dangerous for smaller browsers, as it’s incredibly vague who decides what authorities would be allowed to verify browsers.

    Additionally, this is presented as a way to remove captchas from the web by proving a request is coming from genuine hardware. However, this proves absolutely nothing about a request being genuine or non-spam. The only thing this proves is that it was created by a ‘genuine device’, so all a malicious user would have to do is to (automatically) send the request via a verified device and they’d pass the check.


  • Noah@lemmy.federated.clubtoMinecraft@lemmy.worldNew Java Snapshot 23w31a
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    1 year ago

    I’m really excited to see the technical changes, specifically the move towards a more data-driven system. This should make it a lot easier for servers to change stuff like biomes when a player is already playing, especially on larger networks. Currently you’d have to set the biomes on join, without a way to update them or make them “sub-server” specific.

    The datapack changes are also very nice to see, hopefully this can help people write some more performant functions _