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by sandbags 198 days ago
My understanding that attempts to defeat fingerprinting are often useless because they can tend to make you more, rather than less, unique.

So instead I wonder if we could build an open database of “identities” that our browsers could clone.

That is your browser deliberately reports the whatever is currently the most popular of a set of general identities.

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This sounds good bit miss one thing and you are extremely unique again