PixelTells
PixelTells: Fingerprinting Rendering Operations in Canvas2D
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GITHUB · launched Oct 12, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 96%) · 1 view
Category and tags
- Security
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial Writing a basic canvas script that renders shapes and reads pixel data is simple, but producing a reliable, cross-browser canvas fingerprinting research suite requires deep graphics pipeline knowledge.
What it would actually take: The project requires an in-depth harness running precise 2D Canvas drawing routines (sub-pixel anti-aliasing, winding rules, text rasterization across GPUs and OS font engines) and extracting hash signatures from ImageData. The challenge is isolating subtle driver, hardware, and OS rasterizer differences from nondeterministic browser noise without triggering anti-fingerprinting heuristics.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #2636 of 2699 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 348 days after the earliest competitor.
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