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Comment by figmert

6 hours ago

Sure, but your MAC address is easily spoofed. In fact, all major operating systems do it nowadays for public WiFi systems and you have to explicitly opt-out of randomising your MAC Address when connecting.

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p0w3n3d  32 minutes ago

Still it's really convenient to be hidden behind NAT not being unique in the constantly-growing list of gathered data

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