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eli on April 26, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Browserprint: Browser fingerprint tool now can gue...

In general, sure, but ad networks don't care about OS spoofing.

educar on April 26, 2017 [–]

No, the point is they can serve up targeted ads using browser fingerprint

eli on April 27, 2017 | [–]

Detecting OS despite a spoofed user agent is not relevant to that goal

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