A recent Youtube Web update has added a canvas whenever the seek bar is visible, an HTML5 canvas pops up. This was not asked for and not needed. If you disable canvases for privacy, this will cause a horrific red bad to cover half the screen until you hide the seekbar. Canvases can be used for fingerprinting, which I’m sure Google is doing here.

  • @[email protected]English
    23•9 days ago

    Yeah, I bet it would be trivial for one of their engineers to whip up a universally compatible, hardware accelerated image file converter in JS, using no external dependencies, and less than 50 lines of code. Hint: it uses Canvas

    • KairosEnglish
      -5•9 days ago

      Yes because as we all know 100% of browsers have a canvas.

      • lime!English
        12•9 days ago

        which ones don’t?

        also, good goalpost moving.

        • KairosEnglish
          -6•9 days ago

          LibreWolf

          TinEye seems to have no problem with this. It seems weird to argue that something that doesn’t work on every browser should be used because the alternative doesn’t work on every browser.

          Google could easily do both. Using JS if canvas fails.

          • lime!English
            13•9 days ago

            librewolf has canvas turned off, because it’s fingerprintable. it’s still in the firefox codebase. all major browsers support canvas and have for more than 10 fifteen years.

            also, canvas is literally a JS API what are you talking about