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Re:Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought by ch33zer on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @06:23AM (#35244429)
Having JS off probably puts you in the < .1% of users bucket. Unless you additionally are: * Routinely moving between IPs * Modifying your headers to avoid giving away info (user agent, etc) * Defeating all the other non-JS things that fingerprinters probably look for

then you are not safe by just turning off JS.

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Re:Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought by account42 on Friday March 24, 2023 @08:46AM (#35288309)
Being in a 0.1% bucket is only ~10 bits of information - much less than what can be gathered with JS on.

And of course its not enough, but the situation is even more hopeless with JS on.

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