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Sadly, spoofing GPU vendor & renderer can be an even larger flag since they can hash the resulting image of the canvas to compare it with a database of collected fingerprints[0]

[0]: https://research.google/pubs/picasso-lightweight-device-clas...

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Until a major player gets on board. Then it works.

Apple does this by sending an imposter user agent from Safari on iPads.

If only that was expanded to iPhones, too. And then send rotating, or randomized user agents.

Apple does it because they don’t have a vested financial interest in internet-wide tracking.

Google does.

And while Mozilla does too because the vast majority of their funding comes from Google, it’s more pertinent that they don’t have the market share to pull this off. Firefox would just stop working on major websites if they did this.

Doesn't that just move the goal post though? Instead of using your GPU vendor for the fingerprint they can just hash the output canvas after they a bunch of odd rendering calls, getting a hash from the quirks of your graphics driver and GPU hardware.

It’s funny that trying to click on the Google Scholar link there falsely identifies me as a bot.

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