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Re:Am I Unique? by RonanTheGrey on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:42PM (#19222677)
Basically everything meaningful used for fingerprinting requires JS. If you don't have JS running, that's a signal, but a really weak one. About all they have after that is your useragent and IP address.

Too bad most of the web isn't written to be without JS (or that we don't have stronger protections against fingerprinting, so it wouldn't matter....)

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Re:Am I Unique? by flukus on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:52PM (#19222722)
> Basically everything meaningful used for fingerprinting requires JS. If you don't have JS running, that's a signal, but a really weak one.

It eliminates probably 99% of the population. Throw in some css fingerprinting and you could probably be identified uniquely.

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Re:Am I Unique? by RonanTheGrey on Thursday February 21, 2019 @10:02PM (#19222762)
I know, it's a really crappy situation all around. I went and spent a few hours trying to see how to prevent fingerprinting and the answer is you basically can't. That sucks.
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