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Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID by some_random on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @10:09AM (#22236349)
How many people will actually run chrome with a cli flag? It would be pretty impressive if every single person reading this thread did, but it probably won't even be that. Most people don't even touch their settings.

13 bits of entropy is far from a uuid (but to get it to that you need to disable some more settings, which again very few people do), but it's still plenty good enough to disambiguate individuals over time.

Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID by Yeroc on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @02:56PM (#22240222)
And Google is certainly in a position to disambiguate that uuid to an individual as soon as they login to gmail or any other Google property!