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throway4234324 ◴[] No.26352465[source]
> Google has promised that the vast majority of FLoC cohorts will comprise thousands of users each, so a cohort ID alone shouldn’t distinguish you from a few thousand other people like you. However, that still gives fingerprinters a massive head start.

This is far fewer bits than one's IP address (> 32), unless you're using a VPN or have some weird ISP doing NAT for its users.

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1. dathinab ◴[] No.26352872[source]
> ISP doing NAT for its

Or your IP address changing frequently, a properly not really applying to FLoC.