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I recently wrote about the limits of these kinds of fingerprinting tests. They tend to overly focus on uniqueness without taking into account stability. Moreover sample size is often really small which tends to artificially make a lot of users unique

https://blog.castle.io/what-browser-fingerprinting-tests-lik...

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This is great, and exactly the kind of nuance I almost never see when this topics come up. Thanks for posting this. Far too often, the pro-privacy crowd is much more _upset_ than they are precise, and to the point of your article are spending extra effort without really accomplishing much.

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