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by bitL 2535 days ago
Does the container provide "fake" lowest common denominator environment so that your browser cannot be fingerprinted? Are mouse movements and keyboard typing frequency randomized to avoid matching one's behavior to a subset of all users? If not, you are easy to spot.
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You can enable privacy.resistFingerprinting in firefox's about:config to thwart fingerprinting.
We should be pushing for laws against fingerprinting. It was a cool idea, anonymously track users, but in practice it's not anonymous at all. Make a device fingerprint be PII and require tracking tools to get explicit consent before fingerprinting.