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> The best way to hide your fingerprint is to be as similar to everyone as possible.

Ironically, this also means you should not enable your browser's "Do not track" preference.

I don't think it matters, roughly half of browsers have it on and half have it off. The most important thing is to not change it from its default since thats the real marker trackers can use.

Right. In the best of worlds, websites should of course respect the "Do Not Track".

DNT was an entirely pointless idea. Given the easy choice, no one wants to be tracked when not being tracked is an option so browsers rightfully started making it the default since its what everyone wants. But no tracker is going to think, gee, no one wants me to track, guess I'll shut down my business so they ignore the marker or use it as another tracking point.

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