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		MatthewMcDonald on Aug 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browse... It's not nearly as easy without cookies and javascript, but it's worth mentioning that browser fingerprinting[0] can track users across websites. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint

cm2187 on Aug 17, 2015 [–]

This thing relies heavily on javascript, flash and silverlight. Both flash and silverlight require javascript. So unless I missed something, without scripts the only thing device fingerprinting can harvest is pretty much the user agent, which is pretty much useless for fingerprinting.

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