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So, how does browser fingerprinting work. Does it basically look at the 1) IP and 2) Browser Agent pair for near uniqueness?

Lots of things from browser settings to what plugins you have.

These guys will tell you how unique is your browser fingerprint

This should be mentioned here, too https://panopticlick.eff.org/

fingerprintjs readme does a good job of explaining it: https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs2

These days over 90% of traffic is encrypted so the amount of requests they can touch is pretty limited.

you can spoof a browser pretty easily in the request. you can tell the server you are w/e you want the server to think you are.