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Why are there "subtle differences in the rendering of the same text" when rendering on a canvas? I get how there can be differences between different browsers and even different builds of the same browser, but what more plays in? How many bits for identification does this actually provide?



They use WebGL to render text. The OS, browser and video card can produce different pixel values.

See Pixel Perfect: Fingerprinting Canvas in HTML5 (http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~hovav/papers/ms12.html).




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