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Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID by rvnx on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @12:52PM (#22238640)
One clarification:

- By default it's much more than 13 bits of entropy

- If you disable usage statistics then you are limited to 13 bits of entropy

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Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID by asvitkine on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @12:19AM (#22244261)
Actually, the low entropy provider is used for any field trials that get included in the header.

See: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/components/variations/v...

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