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Or a VPN. Then again, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint and it's game over again.

• dx034 9y ago
  browsers could prevent fingerprinting. They could randomize information enough so that they still have the important bits but cannot easily be tracked.
  • tyingq 9y ago
    It is a war of escalation though. You can be tracked via 304 responses and etags, for example. Fixing those client side isn't really practical.
    • enraged_camel 9y ago
      You don't need to prevent tracking completely. You just need to make it enough of a hassle so that it becomes too impractical or too expensive to do at scale.
  • criddell 9y ago
    And then the ISP comes along and adds a super cookie to your traffic. It's ISPs that worry me the most. They see all the places you connect to. Even if you use https, they still know the endpoints.
    • pacala 9y ago
      ISPs can't add cookies to encrypted traffic going into a VPN relay.