You can't stop fingerprinting. I wish you could, but you can't.
But you CAN make it enough of a pain to cut down on the number of half-qualified Web monkeys who try to use the information in ham-handed ways. You can stop just handing the information over for free to people who might want to casually exploit you. You might even make it harder for some more sophisticated and/or committed actors to do it; for example, if I'm an ISP running a middlebox and trying to fingerprint all the traffic that runs through me, I can't use JavaScript. And you can save some bandwidth in the process.
But you CAN make it enough of a pain to cut down on the number of half-qualified Web monkeys who try to use the information in ham-handed ways. You can stop just handing the information over for free to people who might want to casually exploit you. You might even make it harder for some more sophisticated and/or committed actors to do it; for example, if I'm an ISP running a middlebox and trying to fingerprint all the traffic that runs through me, I can't use JavaScript. And you can save some bandwidth in the process.
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