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If you allow the camera to be used, you've surpassed the canvas profiling threat and moved onto actual biometric data etc. It can possibly be optional, activated by a toggle.
Pages affected: Pages requesting to access microphone and/or camera.
JShelter protects not only from fingerprinting but also from other threads. This needs further thoughts on what exactly should be turn off.
Suppose that there is a tracker T at the page A on which the user allows to access camera and microphone. That tracker can access the audio and video of the user. Additionally, it can create a fingerprint that can be used on other pages.
Suppose that the user also visits page B that also contains T. Additionally suppose that the user would not turn on the camera and microphone. Would T have a better position if JShelter was off on A? Properly investigate and answer before going for this issue.
Metadata Update from @polcak: - Issue priority set to: Low (was: Normal) - Issue tagged with: design decision, research
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