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that now has your IP address and your host string, as well as matching your ID to any sales trackers you happen to have, basically all you need to uniquely identify a user across sessions
If you're truly worried about that, turn the Internet off and never come back. What you are asking is impossible.
Incorrect.
Nobody has my IP, self-hosted vpn
My host string changes automatically every 3 minutes, and none of them report my actual system status
Every cookie and cache is purged on close except for a few whitelisted sites, and I regularly run diff scans for evercookies
So yes, it is possible, and is relatively easy to do
this is the way