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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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