Most traffic on the web is from "bots" not browsers.
These "fingerprint" analyses all seem to fail to account for that fact.
"Bots" generally do not run Javascript.
The more information the client sends, the easier it is to create a more complex "fingerprint" and the more difficult it is for users to "copy" this fingerprint.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: firstartytrackersimulator.org
Connection: close
No Javascript.
Of course, anyone can make a fingerprint from those three headers. However it is quite generic and very easy for any user to "copy".
Many website operators incorrectly assume this must be a "bot".
I can use a "modern" web browser that tries to send all sorts of information, but because I use a localhost-bound forward proxy that deletes, adds and/or modifies headers, these three headers are all the remote website will ever see.
The question is, what advertiser is seriously going to spend time and effort to try to show ads to a person who only sends three generic headers and does not run Javascript. There is little value in tracking such users if they do not convert.
These "fingerprint" analyses all seem to fail to account for that fact.
"Bots" generally do not run Javascript.
The more information the client sends, the easier it is to create a more complex "fingerprint" and the more difficult it is for users to "copy" this fingerprint.
No Javascript.Of course, anyone can make a fingerprint from those three headers. However it is quite generic and very easy for any user to "copy".
Many website operators incorrectly assume this must be a "bot".
I can use a "modern" web browser that tries to send all sorts of information, but because I use a localhost-bound forward proxy that deletes, adds and/or modifies headers, these three headers are all the remote website will ever see.
The question is, what advertiser is seriously going to spend time and effort to try to show ads to a person who only sends three generic headers and does not run Javascript. There is little value in tracking such users if they do not convert.