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		est on March 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought so in order to stay anonymous, one can clear these parameters, alternatively one can generate different parameters for every HTTP call.

_siis on March 21, 2023 [–]

No, any session based protocol (HTTPS) would expect certain characteristics to stay the same between the same session.

If it changed with every call they'd just block you as a bot.

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