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by softawre 3715 days ago
> really scary

This is really scary to you? I get that you can do fingerprints, and honestly there's a LOT more than just browser window position/size in them, but "really scary"?

Maybe we need to stop exaggerating on this sort of stuff if we want people to take us seriously.

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Fine. It's scary that browsers allow for so much fingerprinting. This toy webapp is an example of a larger picture of "things that we really shouldn't allow to happen". So "really scary" was referring to the issue of browser fingerprinting as a whole, not just one toy webapp.