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by CharlieDigital 1047 days ago
Fingerprinting is one of the techniques used to track you across the web.

If the site is serving Google, Meta, or ads from other networks, your unique browser fingerprint is one of the tools that makes it possible to target and retarget you.
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afavour 1047 days ago
I think we’re all aware of that. Where’s the specific evidence that Chrome passed the Cloudflare DDOS protection because it gave up more private information than Firefox did?
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btully 1045 days ago
especially since the author had to change the privacy.resistFingerprinting in Firefox to true to get it to work (meaning that it was able to bypass Cloudflare's loop by being MORE secure). But that appeared to break other non-Cloudflare sites.

I think the fingerprinting is a red herring. Yes, Chrome is less secure. But Chrome worked.

It's quite possible someone at the author's workplace updated their Cloudflare WAF settings and made things more strict, causing more checks. I'd even offer that a Firefox extension might be contributing.

But the argument that Chrome worked because it offered Cloudflare personal information is pretty out there ;)

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