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Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta (tuta.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Google can't fingerprint you very well if you block all scripts from Google.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Considering how few people block all scripts, this could also make it trivial for them to fingerprint you.

[–] kalpol 4 points 2 weeks ago

I've checked, its true. Linux plus Firefox already puts you in the 2 percent category.

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