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by londons_explore 2364 days ago
> One that I expect them to win.

Sure, the basic things like "which fonts do you have installed" are easy to make consistent, but there are thousands of other ways to fingerprint a browser, many of which would have serious performance impacts if fixed. For example, Macbook Air's can only run at full CPU speed for about a second before slowing down. Just make a 2 second javascript busy loop and watch for the slowdown. Are you going to slow all users down all the time just so these macbook users can't be identified?