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		throwawgler87 on April 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Are top websites using WebGL for fingerprinting? To make fingerprinting illegal, you mean? Or were you thinking of some other way to solve the problem with regulation?

nerdponx on April 17, 2021 [–]

More like (the spirit of) GDPR, where data collection itself becomes a legal and financial liability to point where it's not worth it to collect and retain it for a typical entity.

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