Comment by tomrittervg

In this context "a unique fingerprint" means that your fingerprint does not match any other user's. When you visit Site A and B you give a fingerprint X that is the same on A and B but no one else on the internet has ever sent.

In contrast a randomized fingerprint mean when you visit A you have a fingerprint X' and on B you have a fingerprint Y' and no one else on the internet has X' or Y' but A and B can't correlate you.

The protections we've put in place first try to do API normalization to make it so more people have a fingerprint X, and it isn't unique. And then they do API randomization so you use X' and Y'.

If a fingerprint goes to extra effort of detecting a randomized fingerprint, and ignore (or remove) the randomization, they will get the X fingerprint which - hopefully - matches many more users.