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sparaker
on Feb 24, 2015
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Online Porn Could Be the Next Big Privacy Scandal
What is this browser fingerprint? If you are talking about some cookies and the user agent string. I wouldn't be concerned.
Starwatcher2001
on Feb 24, 2015
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https://panopticlick.eff.org
"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 5,053,325 tested so far."
bhayden
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It seems like denying access to my plugins (and maybe non-standard fonts) would solve this. Why does a website need to know my plugins in the day and age of Flash being deprecated?
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