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That's because it is including the dimensions of your window as part of your fingerprint. If your goal is to track users as they move across sites, matching browser size makes sense.


FYI, TOR browser has set a default browser resolution that ignore resizing to mitigate this issue. This might only make you blend in with other TOR users but this approach to resist device/ interface fingerprinting is quite interesting.




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