• pelya@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Fingerprinting fear is eh. The server only receives what the browser sends to it, plus your IP address. The browser fully controls what it sends, and it only sends identifying data because advertisement companies pay browser vendors to add this data. There is no technical reason why fingerprinting is even possible. Everything - your OS version, your cookies, your mouse movement - can be faked or anonymozed.

    • Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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      35 minutes ago

      If you configure your browser to do so. Average Joe and Jane won’t. That aside, preventing fingerprinting is really hard; ask the Tor Browser team how much effort they have to put into this.