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by WithinReason 1590 days ago
Disabling it makes your fingerprint more unique
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Giving out a Null value has less entropy than a unique value. It may also be likely that it gets dropped when computing the overall fingerprint.
if 20% of people explicitly disable it then it carries log_2(5) = 2.32 bits of entropy so it's not going to get dropped.