Dran

It was an adblock-spcific paywall

What browser/adblocker(s) are you running? (For everyone else, simply blocking JavaScript on their main domain seems to do the trick)

Outlook being on that list is crazy.

Depends on where you work and what their policies are. My work does have many strict policies on following licenses, protecting sensitive data, etc

My solution was to MIT license and open source everything I write. It follows all policies while still giving me the flexibility to fork/share the code with any other institutions that want to run something similar.

It also had the added benefit of forcing me to properly manage secrets, gitignores, etc

The canvas API needs specific access to hardware that isn’t usually available via browser APIs. It’s usually harder to get specific capability information from a user’s GPU for example. The canvas API needs capability information to decide how to draw objects across differently capable hardware, and those extra data points make it that much easier to uniquely identify a user. The more data points you can collect, the more unique each visitor is.

Here’s a good utility from the EFF to demonstrate the concept if you or anyone else is curious.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/