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Re:Mozilla VPN by bluedays on Friday June 19, 2020 @12:24PM (#23575969)
Browser fingerprinting means you can more or less be identified regardless of your IP address. Since tracking is more or less tied to the browser should you not use the VPN in some instance the browser fingerprint remains the same. So all the Facebook/Google tracking will be able to determine who you are after you change your IP.
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Re:Mozilla VPN by r3trohack3r on Friday June 19, 2020 @12:30PM (#23576027)
Yup. But it isn't clear to me whether that tracking information would be considered "content" (and require a warrant) or "metadata" and be subject to mass warrantless data collection.

Do you have thoughts?

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Re:Mozilla VPN by bluedays on Friday June 19, 2020 @01:30PM (#23576804)
I don't know. Probably better to ask a lawyer something like this.
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