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by cthalupa 2483 days ago
I have no doubt that if you had a record of my browsing habits for 2-3 days you could readily identify who I am the next time you have my browsing habits for that period of time.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if 2-3 hours of active browsing was enough for this.

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Your device fingerprint alone is generally enough to tie your new google id to any previous ones.
Which is also a typical example of privacy violations in the name of alleged security.

Some newer linux kernels (>2016) use random tcp timestamps offsets to prevent clock skew profiling.

That is a security feature, not the shit big tech is offering here.

But of course the mechanisms in question are suddenly implemented for fraud protection instead of user security. Yeah, bullshit.