This functionality was originally implemented in PR 7029; however it's not, nor has it ever been, used as far as I can tell.[1]
Note in particular that the default viewer does not expose either a preference or even an option with which `disableCanvasToImageConversion` can be toggled, and source-code modification is thus required.
Furthermore, note also that we have multiple other instances of `canvas`-data accesses in both the `src/display/canvas.js` and `src/display/text_layer.js` files. If any of those are blocked, by e.g. browser settings, there will be outright rendering bugs and non-working thumbnails thus seem like a very small issue in the grand scheme of things; hence why I'm suggesting that we remove the unused `disableCanvasToImageConversion` functionality.
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[1] For the Tor use-case mentioned in issue 7026, I *believe* that the solution was to white-list `canvas`-data accesses for its built-in PDF Viewer.
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