Dran

Outlook being on that list is crazy.

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/

The proper deepseek r1 requires about 500gb of ram/vram to run, which is orders of magnitude more ram than modern phones have. The smaller models called “deepseek r1” are not the real deepseek model that everyone is talking about.