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Re:Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:29AM (#35246694)
> Non-technical people deserve to have their personal data stolen

Nobody said that. "My defenses work" != "my defenses should be necessary".

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Re:Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought by smirgel on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:35AM (#35246790)
"On the other hand if you insist on using JS, Gmail, Google search, Facebook etc. then you're fair game and you only have yourself to blame if your personal data is stolen."
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Re:Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @02:03PM (#35249973)
... okay, I reread it for a third time and you're right. Not sure how I managed to miss it the first two times I read the comment. Yeah, that's nonsense.
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Re:Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought by ncallaway on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:57AM (#35247127)
Uh… they definitely said that. They specifically said that people were “fair game”.
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