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Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by gregw134 on Monday May 06, 2019 @01:54PM (#19841966)
Ironically, the do not track setting itself can be used in browser fingerprinting.
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Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by 55555 on Monday May 06, 2019 @07:35PM (#19845008)
In fact, it is _primarily_ used as a point of entropy for tracking, and does almost nothing to prevent tracking, so all-in-all it's a huge net negative. And because it's mostly turned off, turning it on to be tracked less actually causes you to be tracked more.
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Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey by titzer on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @01:35AM (#19846895)
Exactly, this is why it needs the force of law behind it.
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