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Fingerprinting by screen size is real. I've checked one day, and it turned out my browser viewport size when maximized is super unique (like <0.1% users unique). That's mostly because I use sidebery (tabs on the left instead of the top) and don't have a (visible by default) bookmarks tab, but wow I didn't expect to be so obvious for advertisers by just reading my page-usable screen size.


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