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What's not used for fingerprinting nowadays?

> What's not used for fingerprinting nowadays?

HTML tags.

I'm not sure if this is sarcastic or not, but most likely not true.

Yes, WebGL remains a large surface area of an attack vector.

Disabling it makes your fingerprint more unique

Giving out a Null value has less entropy than a unique value. It may also be likely that it gets dropped when computing the overall fingerprint.

if 20% of people explicitly disable it then it carries log_2(5) = 2.32 bits of entropy so it's not going to get dropped.