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Is that for FF or your specific user agent? I always thought Panopticlick wasn't being fair there. Browsers update all the time, so your agent is changing every 6 weeks. If they are comparing your UA of today against UAs from their entire project, it won't be remotely accurate.

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for User Agent actually. And, my test with Chrome gave me a similar score.

Yes, agents change relatively rapidly, so unless trackers have a model predicting User Agent change, a tracking profile is only good for only so long.

Still, I suppose that one could either try to find the most common User Agent string, and set your browser to that, or have it change somewhat stochastically (but only enough so we don't compromise legitimate uses)

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