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I get a new fingerprint id everytime I refresh the page (firefox, linux) -- so that might be sampling a tiny bit too much. audio and canvas fingerprint are constant though so it's probably plenty enough...

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The same applies to macOS. Safari produces a unique fingerprint ID every time, and Firefox also has a different fingerprint ID with every visit.

If the fingerprint ID is unique every time, there is zero possibility of using it for identification.

Very interesting. So this is the battlefield perhaps. Randomly corrupt the data instead of eliminating it?

I think it might be because the performance fingerprints need to be bucketed. If they're too specific you'll never get the same fingerprint twice.

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