Something interesting I discovered about simHQ

[PinkPanther]

I was at HardOCP one day and they had a news story regarding canvas fingerprinting. Here is the article they were referencing. Basically it is a way to "track" whom is using your site without using cookies. It is a sort of  a spying technique and I don't like it.

 

http://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-online-tracking-device-that-is-virtually-impossible-to-block

 

This brings me to simHQ. Last week I was tring out Tails Live DVD https://tails.boum.org/

and used it to got to simHQ website, well, Tails blocks canvas fingerprinting by sending back a blank canvas to the server that made the request and when I connected to simHQ the browser informed me that it was sending a blank canvas back to simHQ because it tried to use canvas fingerprinting.

 

I no longer have a membeship at simHQ and is why I posted it here instead of there. Maybe simHQ is not aware they are using addthis' or perhaps it is being used by one of their advertisers.

Edited July 30, 2014 by PinkPanther

[MigBuster]

Interesting - thanks for posting

[+Erik]

Our forum software comes with this as an addon option. I specifically made sure it wasn't even capable of being installed by blocking it. I had read up on it awhile back and didn't like the premise it was built on. They might not even know over there what they've unleashed on their readers.