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by zacketysack3 3664 days ago
Browser fingerprinting is really scary, but AFAIK there are no major websites using it yet right?

It should be fairly easy to detect if something you Google in an different browser session suddenly turns up as an ad on Reddit after you've deleted cookies and cleared history. Also it seems unlikely that Reddit would implement something like this after considering the outcry over the possibility of the Facebook mobile app recording audio. Especially since Reddit has a large technical userbase who are aware of privacy concerns in fingerprinting technologies.

E: why is this being downvoted?