Not all fingerprinting is for consumer unfriendly purposes. It can be used for security to make sure client accounts are being accessed by known machines, or i

Not all fingerprinting is for consumer unfriendly purposes. It can be used for security to make sure client accounts are being accessed by known machines, or it can be used to monitor license sharing (for paid subscription services). Oracle, and others have paid services that do this for the security conscious. A nice open source implementation can be found here: https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs