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Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID by gruez on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:39PM (#22239272)
>Now this is interesting. If without that 13 bits of entropy, what will Google lost? Is it because of this 13 bits then Google suddenly able to track what they were not?

At the very least, having those 13 bits of entropy along with a /24 subnet allows you to have device-level granularity, whereas a /24 subnet may be shared by hundreds of households.

Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID by rvnx on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @02:12PM (#22239704)
They have more than 13 bits of entropy

https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/components/metrics/entr...

Look how the function is called, high-entropy source :)

Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID by AsyncAwait on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:55PM (#22242008)
But if you disable telemetry, they'll only have 13?
Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID by ajsnigrutin on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @09:03AM (#22246748)
+ip +browser version +some os info +fonts info +screen resolution (well.. viewport size) + + +