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Surely this is true, but if you’re a fingerprinting company aren’t you making so much money violating the privacy of the masses that it’s not worth your time going after the tiny set of Freedom Nerds trying to evade you?




They aren't specifically going after you... they just try to create a unique hash from everything they can and by doing weird things to your system you are making a truly unique hash easier

Yeah, and my passwords are so obvious and stupid, nobody's gonna guess them!

I think, you are falling for a technical fallacy. It's not costing them any more time.




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