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It's already trivially easy to fingerprint a user in about a dozen other ways via:

User Agent String (being fixed soon by the Chrome team)

HTTP_ACCEPT headers

Browser plugin metadata

Time zone

System fonts

Supercookies

Canvas and WebGL fingerprinting

AudioContext

Device CPU and memory

What's one more bit of information?




Many of these should also not be exposed to websites without explicit authorization.




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