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Letting the website know anything at all lets it track you, as we learn time and time again.


You cannot realisticly prevent the website from knowing that you are using a privacy-conscious browser, which is why e.g. TOR Browser and Firefox's enhanced tracking prevention don't attempt to do that but instead only try to make all their users look the same. Trying to emultate the growing number of cookieNG technologies whithout adding more privacy leaks is a waste of time.


It already has your IP.




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