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by no_time 1631 days ago
Blocking the tracker is a fingerprintable action by itself.
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Unless many people do that.
I don't see that ever becoming a reality unless apple and mozilla join forces to enforce anti-fingerprinting standards at the cost of crippling website features, at least in private browsing mode. The other 2 players in the browser space have vested interest in keeping everything the way it is now.
If uBlock Origin deploys it, and makes it a default, it will be automatically enabled for 5+ million users on Firefox.