“Hey Google, stop tracking me”

This article is wrong in that the generated id is not unique (see yesterday's discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22236106 ) and Google's statement at https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html#variat.... The id certainly makes tracking individual users a lot easier by making their browser fingerprint far more unique.

Also there are no headers named "X-Client-header" or "X-Client" that I am aware of. The header name is "X-Client-Data".

Users who want/need to stick with Google Chrome for now can change its desktop shortcut to always launch with the parameter “--reset-variation-state”. Yet another hoop to jump through...

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