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by alkonaut 3516 days ago
Yeah, if someone e.g. gets my complete hw fingerprint, I'm identifiable. But it's no worse than I'm already uniquely id'd by visiting pretty much any website today. I don't like it, but I also don't see a point in being outraged when my music player does it but not when my favorite website does it.
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You seem very willing to just dish your data over to everyone - can I install some software on your computer, too?
Well if you make a piece of useful software I'll install it (I'd rather install it myself).

I'm not very generous with my data at all - but I'd rather trust my firewall to protect my data, than a dialog that asks me if I'm OK with sharing it. That was my point.