The researcher, who uses the pseudonym z0ccc, explained that browser fingerprinting is a powerful method many websites use to collect all kinds of details about the visitors, including their browser type and version, their operating system, active plugins, time zone, language, screen resolution, and various other active settings.
He argued that while these data points may not be of much use by themselves, when combined, they could help uniquely identify one specific person, since there’s a very small chance of multiple people having the same set of data points.
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