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Browser fingerprinting allows you to identify uniquely a browser and thus the user. This usually means that VPN and incognito mode will not help you to "change you identity".

One example I know well is AudioContext fingerprinting with a demo available here: https://audiofingerprint.openwpm.com/

There are also worse fingerprinting methods that work cross-browsers.




audiocontext fingerprinting is less identifying than you think. It pretty much boils down to "what's your browser complied with and what FPU implementation you're running"

https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/issues/1500#issuec...

https://github.com/w3cping/tracking-issues/issues/53#issueco...




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