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johnisgood
38 days ago
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The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
How effective is it at "un-anonymizing" me? I value privacy. What do you think I can do about "any" of this?
Retr0id
38 days ago
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It tends to identify your platform/browser version, with relatively low granularity. Unless you have an unusually rare OS/browser config, it won't deanon you on on its own. But it can be combined with other fingerprinting vectors.
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