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Comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7

Lots of www users are getting fingerprinted no doubt

But it's not difficult to avoid giving away unnecessary details used to create fingerprints, it's just that few people care to do it

I don't use a browser to make HTTP requests, so I have almost full control over fingerprints. There's no Javascript, cookies, CSS or images. No graphics. I use different combinations of headers, usually only Host and Connection because that's all that's needed. I use different UA values if a UA header is required, I use various TLS libraries, I can manipulate the client hello

Of course anyone can collect a fingerprint but not all fingerprints indicate a worthy ad target

"OHTTP" sounds like the dumbest idea I have heard in a while. It does nothing to reduce the amounts of detail that users send that can be used to create fingerprints

parent 1vuio0pswjnm7 21 hours ago

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