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I don't think it's either/or. Yeah we need to act against companies abusing it, but we also need to be prudent and put locks on our houses when we know there are thieves and spies who would love to sneak inside and take notes on our every move.

What frustrates me the most is that we can't individually disable web api's that provide no value to us. Yeah, that would give greater entropy to fingerprinting, but I'm willing to take that tradeoff if I could prevent webrtc, motion sensing, screen size detection, or web assembly e.g. except on selected whitelisted websites.



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