Before it became a covert surveillance tool disguised as an outstanding browser extension, Stylish really was an outstanding browser extension. It bestowed upon its users nothing less than the power to change the appearance of the internet. Its extensive bank of user-made skins gave bright websites a dark background, undid disliked UI changes, and added manga pictures to everything that wasn’t a manga picture already. I spent many wonderful hours in its simple CSS editor, hiding the distracting parts of the web whilst unknowingly being spied on. Facebook news feed...

Because of their side effects, browser fingerprinting countermeasures may have a negative impact on users privacy. In this post we look more in details at Canvas Defender, a canvas fingerprinting countermeasure.

The issue appears to be affecting Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note 8 users.

Privacy risks with Facebook’s PII-based targeting: auditing a data broker’s advertising interface Venkatadri et al., IEEE Security and Privacy 2018 This is one of those jaw-hits-the-floor, can’t qu…