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by zrm 1642 days ago
> the more you try and thwart fingerprinting, the more unique you appear.

This is presumably because most people don't attempt to thwart fingerprinting.

If a particular feature behaves differently between the three most common browsers, it can be used to distinguish them. If you disable it, now you don't look like any of the most common browsers, which puts you in a category with a smaller number of people in it.

Solution: Get more people in it by having more people install anti-fingerprinting extensions etc.