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Yeah, the only way third-party cookies will block creepier fingerprinting crap is if the creepy stuff is prohibitively more expensive.

But once anyone gets a creepy fingerprinting system working, the barriers drop, and it becomes cheaper to resell the capability as a library or service.

It may offer some minor benefits in terms of enabling companies that "want to be more ethical than the competition", but that too seems like a long-shot. :p



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