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by calhoun137 1893 days ago
+1 just because fingerprinting with WebGL has practical applications and legitimate use cases, this does not mean it's not fingerprinting
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It would only be fingerprinting if the "fingerprint" is persisted alongside some other information about you as a user, and subsequently used in attempts to identify other activity as belonging to said user. That is not at all what was implied by the approach described above (which would just be used at the time of initializing every video streaming session).
I stand corrected. You make a good point.