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I've always assumed fingerprinting was already ubiquitous. I look at the absolute absurdity of tracking/fingerprinting permission dialogs on sites, stating up-front their data sharing with 'trusted partners' in the hundreds ranges (thingiverse.com with over 900, theverge.com on mobile with over 800) and find it more surprising that the default state of all clients shouldn't be to block everything by default.

Edit: for clarity, I believe anything with the ability to analyze the user environment via Javascript/etc on major sites is likely fingerprinting regardless. Blocking, environment isolation and spoofing is already necessary to mitigate this.



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