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		peetistaken 59 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinti... Not really. They can‘t see a list, as navigator.plugins is dummy data in every major browser, but they might able to detect eg. Adblockers by other means

dubcanada 59 days ago [–]

Adblocking is not rocket science, you block the DNS of the ads. Some also use JS to mess or remove ads.

All of this is easily detected, can I ping X, can I see DOM Y, etc.

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