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Comment by YetAnotherNick

10 months ago

Fingerprinting is just for identifying user, not getting user data. You can potentially resell things like app usage to credit rating company.

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DevKoala  10 months ago

That is profiling.

Fingerprinting is an identification mechanism. It is most commonly used for targeting and profiling.

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