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by yeaman1231 1459 days ago
A lot of these are used to fingerprint users to better track them for advertisement industry (https://www.wired.com/story/browser-fingerprinting-tracking-...)

I feel (but have no substantial reason) that the subtext of this sudden governmental interest in this issue is more so the fight between the lobbies of ad-supported tech giants (Google, Facebook) and Apple