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anidea01

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anidea01··on Am I Unique?
True.

But I only care about filling captchas on say banking websites, which is approximately happens once a month.

The rest, I just close the tab: the content never worth it.

The most obnoxious ads don't care about captchas, they just blast you with ads from your previous search keywords/browsing history.

p.s. Would the amount of captchas reduce if we take not the top most non-unique fingerprint, but say "slightly below average"? It will be still severely non-unique for ads purposes.

anidea01··on Am I Unique?
Great idea! Targeted advertising is really upsetting. If we take it one step further:

1. Find out the top non-unique fingerprint [of the year.]

2. Create a Firefox add-on (or modify Firefox source if an add-on is not powerful enough), which uses the most non-unique fingerprint [this year.]

3. Targeted advertising ends for those who use the plug-in/add-on.

It's a cat and mouse game as fingerprint parameters keep increasing, but I think it's possible to win this one.