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A fingerprint is composed of many signals. Even if a few of those signals change, the less-specific fingerprint made by the remaining signals can still be used to infer who a user is. And it doesn't need to be perfect: having a good idea that someone who almost looks like you from yesterday was interested in cat food is a good enough reason to auction ad space to cat food companies today.


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