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john_strinlaitoday at 7:05 PM1 replyview on HN

a lot of what is used for fingerprinting is also used legitimately, and a lot of sites fingerprint. so ~every site would be behind a security risk warning.

we know from the boy who cried wolf that too many warnings quickly turns into legitimate warnings being ignored


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FuckButtonstoday at 8:27 PM

Presumably the intended outcome would be that sites would be pressured into not being malignant actors with regards to user privacy, rather than everyone just ignoring the security notice.

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