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In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like "headphone status" and "screen density."

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That seems so unnecessary. Why do they want to interfere with screen density??

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Even if you do not provide a real fingerprint from your browser if you allow it to collect so many information it's still able to uniquely identify you because noone is going to have all those info the same as you

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