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> lie about the details of the system

Rather than trying to hide everything another tactic is to provide random misinformation (different user-agent strings, only presenting a subset of fonts and plugins, etc). Enough to defeat the fuzzy matching that does go on.

Sure you've got to be careful that you don't do things that may break some sites that rely on this information remaining stable during a session, but that's got far less common with the frequent browser upgrades that go on nowadays.



doesn't this tactic make you even more unique? if a browser behaves differently than the rest of them...

imho the best strategy would be to copy one behaviour everywhere, so that there could be no way to differentiate between users.




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