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'WebGL disabled' is a pretty strong fingerprint anyways

"Disabled" is not metric among those who have disabled it, while WebGL enabled allows identifying different browsers with WebGL enabled.

I know what you mean, but statistically, I don't think that it is easier to guess the person from those who have disabled it versus the list of all browser fingerprints where is that matching or very close unique fingerprint.

You just self select as someone who wants to see privacy focused ads

adblock/ublock/umatrix could get you out of that too.

Sites can tell if you’re running Adblock too.

You’re always leaking some kind of information that advertisers will pay for. The game is choosing what information you’re okay giving them

Doesn't really matter if you can block the ads anyway

Besides, advertisers are not who i worry about when it comes to "my data".

You just self select as someone who uses Adblock.

Unless you disable all JavaScript you’re leaking something. Honestly, you’re still leaking a bit without js, as long as where you’re connecting to is checking.

The game is just choosing what you’re okay telling wherever you connect to.

and clearly parent is not okay with choosing to give the information behind the webgl api

It makes you look the same as everyone else with webgl disabled. This happens to be a reasonably large number of people, because it's the default setting in a variety of privacy focused browsers.

What?

Not nearly as uniquely identifiable as your GPU model.

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