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We studied the behavior of many trackers in detail. We believe many track you solely with client-side state (including cookies, indexeddb, LocalStorage, The http cache, etc). It's true that some others use fingerprinting like you describe, and it's something we will think about in the future. But stateful tracking is still the most reliable mechanism, and for many trackers it's the sole mechanism.



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