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Updated 3.3 Overrides [To RFP or Not] (markdown)

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@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ If your threat model calls for anonymity and advanced fingerprinting protection,
#### 🟪 FINGERPRINTING
If you do nothing on desktop, you are already uniquely identifiable - screen, window and font metrics alone are probably enough - add timezone name, preferred languages, and several dozen other metrics and it is game over. [Here](https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2017/ndss-2017-programme/cross-browser-fingerprinting-os-and-hardware-level-features/) is a link to the results of a study done in 2016 showing a **_99.24%_** unique hit rate (and that is excluding IP addresses).
If you do nothing on desktop, you are already uniquely identifiable - screen, window and font metrics alone are probably enough - add timezone name, preferred languages, and several dozen other metrics and it is game over. [Here](https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2017/ndss-2017-programme/cross-browser-fingerprinting-os-and-hardware-level-features/) is a link to the results of a study done in 2016 showing a **_99.24%_** unique hit rate (and that is excluding [IP addresses](https://educatedguesswork.org/posts/traffic-relaying/)).
**_Changing a few prefs from default is not going to make you "more unique" - there is no such thing_** <sup>1</sup>.