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by throwaway2048 2629 days ago
and be the one very strong signal from $VPN_IPRANGE that has a random wacky user agent, along with disabled scripting (and a quite comprehensive CSS fingerprint to boot).
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My fingerprint is different every minute. That "very strong signal" is discarded by every surveillance engine as useless noise.
There are like three dozen factors in a web user's fingerprint, of which the user agent is just one. And no, the rest aren't all controlled by JS.
you don't know that.