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by asdfgadsfgasfdg 3219 days ago
Doesn't that give you an amazingly unique fingerprint?

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

https://amiunique.org/

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Seems so. But I meant more privacy on a local machine basis. That is, someone would really need to dig through the filesystem to find browsing information, rather than just looking at the standard locations.

I recognize it's a weak privacy measure, but in my situation it gives me a mostly private browser on a shared user account.

OK. This sounds like a perfect use for either private browsing mode or another profile with history etc set to false though.
Private browsing wouldn't save any browsing information, which is something I want. Also, using another profile would reveal that the profile exists in the first place. Using the WSL is much more hidden.