A fingerprint is not a cookie. Cookies are stable on purpose. A browser fingerprint decays -- fonts, versions, settings change -- and a lot of commercial "fingerprinting" is still mostly the IP plus something you logged into. The part that is not fine: the fingerprint does not need to last a year. It only needs to last long enough to glue today's visit to an email or a data-broker file that already has your info. Brave, Tor, and Mullvad Browser try to make you look like everyone else. A random privacy extension often does the opposite. The best move is still the boring one: same browser as a crowd and no IP that is yours.
A fingerprint is not a cookie. Cookies are stable on purpose. A browser fingerprint decays -- fonts, versions, settings change -- and a lot of commercial "fingerprinting" is still mostly the IP plus something you logged into. The part that is not fine: the fingerprint does not need to last a year. It only needs to last long enough to glue today's visit to an email or a data-broker file that already has your info. Brave, Tor, and Mullvad Browser try to make you look like everyone else. A random privacy extension often does the opposite. The best move is still the boring one: same browser as a crowd and no IP that is yours.