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by empyrical 2155 days ago
Also, whether a system is ARM or Intel could be used as another bit of entropy for fingerprinting.
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You can probably get the same information by looking at the webgl fingerprint, since the iGPU inside the A12Z is different than the ones used in Intel macs.
It's more complex and requires to use JavaScript that you can block in the browser, while the user agent is always sent to the server on every request, and thus is much easier to fingerprint the user with that.