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Repeatedly claiming something doesn't make it true.

Here's what the Electronic Frontier Foundation says about fingerprinting.

"""Digital fingerprinting is the process where a remote site or service gathers little bits of information about a user's machine, and puts those pieces together to form a unique picture, or "fingerprint," of the user's device"""

From: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/what-fingerprinting

Here what TeamViewer is doing isn't fingerprinting. it's not combining unrealated bits of information to uniquely identify a user/computer. it's looking at literally one bit of information to identify whether the current non-uniquely-known user is in a -large- group or not, the group of "computers with teamviewer installed".

it can be claimed that this is adding to the bits that can improve a third party's ability to uniquely identify a user/computer, but that's a different claim, that's not what teamviewer is doing.

Re:Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal on Thursday February 04, 2021 @08:03PM (#26031822)
Jami and Tox are completely decentralized messaging systems. They are not directly associated with "blockchain" buzzword as well so they have that going for them, too.

https://jami.net/

https://tox.chat/

Re:Balancing the needs around the CentOS platform on Sunday December 20, 2020 @05:38AM (#25485297)
Or Scientific Linux?