• fubarx@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    They were doing this a decade ago, to help track app marketing campaigns.

    IIRC, it turned out you could get pretty close to uniquely identifying a device with permutations on only 7 attributes. The problem is if you install a plugin to return false data, it could break non-malicious websites, like running games or data visualizations.