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We haven't figured out how to make websites not be able to fingerprint you. Better not use the internet until we do.


We have figured out how to avoid being tracked.

Hide your IP address behind Tor. Transmit identical information as a significant group of people. Don’t store information from websites.

The issue is that degrades the web in ways unrelated to tracking.


>The issue is that degrades the web in ways unrelated to tracking.

And so many sites, and CDNs treat those as hostile by default, and some outright refuse service. It's infuriating as a mere VPN user.


I suspect that this is because a huge amount of traffic coming from those services is abusive.

I know that's the reason we classed all traffic from those sources as suspicious unless they were willing to log in.




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