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by jeroenhd 1965 days ago
I've signed up to see what it could find, but when I open the fingerprinting page in Firefox I just get loading spinners for most of the JS based tracking.

I think Privacy Possum has prevented fingerprinting. I'll disable it for now, but I do wonder what this would mean for the results of the study.

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It seems the intention of the study is precisely to determine the impacts that these plugins have on prevention (or facilitation) of fingerprinting.

I think it should eventually complete, since mine did and I use a similar constellation of privacy plugins -- I think there is a timeout that eventually occurs once the various fingerprinting methods fail.

I noticed several fingerprints without JS in my account when I browsed the results. I suppose some of the fingerprinting works, but even after waiting a minute my screen didn't work with the JS version.