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  • the point of tor is not to avoid fingerprinting, it’s to blend in

    Fingerprinting and blending in are the same thing. You can’t blend in if you have a unique fingerprint. The Tor Project goes to great lengths to mitigate fingerprinting using their custom browser, it’s one of their main goals. It’s pointless to use Tor with a regular browser that doesn’t have those protections, because websites can just identify you by your fingerprint even when you are obfuscating your IP using Tor.

    You are no more tracked by Reddit than you would be with up to date tor

    Browser version is a major part of your fingerprint. It’s in your user agent, but that can be faked so there are additional mechanisms that check what javascript features your browser supports to get a more reliable read of your browser version. Use https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ to learn more.

    And fingerprinting is not a hack or exploit. It’s something that websites use for tracking, just like cookies. And I’m almost certain that Reddit fingerprints users to detect ban evasions.