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Screenshot of a pop-up. It reads:
Color Inaccuracies Detected.
We have detected that your browser may have issues with color accuracy.
You may notice subtle visual noise and incorrect colors appear in your skins.
This issue is usually caused by anti-fingerprinting privacy settings in your browser.
Learn how to fix [with a hyperlink to a help page]
this screenshot was taken on Miners Need Cooler Shoes
does anyone know what would cause this precisely? why would anti-fingerprinting mess with the colors i use to edit an image in the browser?
i’d be tempted to brush this off as the website being malicious and lying to get me to deactivate fingerprinting protection, but the website is fully open-source and what they describe happened to me on Piskel (a pixel art editor, which would constantly mess up my colors in subtle but annoying ways)
Ok, but how does changing the colour of pixels help identify me?
Is it for tracking the source of screenshots?
It’s a two part process. One part happens on your machine. The browser is given a fingerprint to shift colors, and then the trackers can identify you even in a screenshot.