The browser fingerprint nonsense assumes Javascript is turned on and the user has allowed someone else to choose the user agent string and other headers. Thoug

The browser fingerprint nonsense assumes Javascript is turned on and the user has allowed someone else to choose the user agent string and other headers. Thought experiment: What would these "fingerprints" look like if on given day everyone were to turn off JS and set their user agent string and other headers to the same values? The author writes that if I visit amiunique.org I "will almost certainly be" informed that I am unique. Well that is not what happened. According to their test, I am "almost" unique, but still not unique. What the page says is that we can almost certainly be tracked. Does not say whether this would still be worth it to an advertiser. The question is not "whether we can be tracked". Of course we can. Most people using the computers on the internet, in the same way as people using telephones on a landline or cellular network, are not expecting to be "untraceable". The question is how easy we are making it for anyone to conduct tracking -- not just those who are properly authorised to do so -- and for what purpose are they collecting this information.