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> You can't block fingerprinting completely without breaking a ton of useful features.

Many of those features are not so useful and their main use is fingerprinting, for example:

- WebGL is mostly used for fingerprinting

- enumerating installed fonts is mostly used for fingerprinting

They should be put behind a permission popup, so that only those sites that really need them (e.g. graphic editors, text editors) can use them. So nothing gets broken.



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