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Re:Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to l... by kaladin-jasnah on Sunday July 12, 2026 @06:20PM (#48885453)
Isn't fingerprinting used across many different websites? Then the analogy would be a number of stores colluding to recognize the same person across all stores?

(I have no idea, I don't know too much about this)

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Re:Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to l... by charcircuit on Sunday July 12, 2026 @06:27PM (#48885506)
Which is famously done by casinos. But in practice many businesses big and small do share intelligence with each other about problematic customers who shoplift etc.
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