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Can’t a good privacy browser randomize some of the ‘nonessential’ elements it sends, thereby creating a new fingerprint for each website? Or change them all to the same one so everyone using that browser has an even more similar fingerprint?

Its always struck me as odd that your browser just volunteers so much information every time you go to a site. Then again, my knowledge of how the web works is limited to HTML+CSS from the 00’s…



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