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No, it's not all the way down to the person. Yes, it's just correlations. Even if the fingerprint was so unique and it went down to 1 user, it wouldn't be able to actually identify that person's name etc.

The most likely use-case here is ad fraud detection anyway.



> The most likely use-case here

I'm not so sure. There's a lot of market value in knowing that User 2341423 went to Site A, then Site B, then bought this item, etc.




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