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by pdkl95 3817 days ago
per-HTTP request

Nothing ever guaranteed the user agent header would be consistent or present. Any re-use of a user-agent string adds bits of data that can be used for tracking.

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While we're at it, we need some solution to tracking based on browser window size. I'm one of the few people I know who doesn't maximize everything, so I'm probably 100% uniquely trackable just by window size.
Window size detection is done with JavaScript. Block it.
It can apparently be done with CSS by a determined website.
Disable JS by default. I do, and it makes the web better. Surf/tabbed makes this easy to do per process.