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by StavrosK 2329 days ago
I don't think the browser fingerprint and native app fingerprint are the same, what you say sounds unlikely to me.
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Fingerprinting across devices is possible too, using things like behavioral analytics, network traffic, timing, third-party data sources etc.

The third party data sources is the easy one. Log into service A on your computer and service A on your phone. Service A fingerprints both and sells the data to service B. Now service B knows how to correlate your behavior between devices even though you never logged in.

I’m sure you’ve logged in something on both your phone and computer. It doesn’t have to be Facebook.