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Does anyone have experience with passive fingerprinting? I thought about implementing it into our Go backend as a middleware of some kind and track that way. I haven't found anything like it so far, but it would be ideal to track without cookies.

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I did a write-up of solutions that I'm aware of here: https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter/blob/master/docs/sessio... – happy to add more if anyone knows of any.

Thank you!

The Fathom one isn’t accurate and references an old article. I’ll submit a PR in a few weeks if I remember :)

Device fingerprinting falls under European data protection laws, so might as well just use cookies if you're going that path.

That's really unfortunate. Well, at least it's easier to implement a cookie solution then.

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