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Which is also a typical example of privacy violations in the name of alleged security.

Some newer linux kernels (>2016) use random tcp timestamps offsets to prevent clock skew profiling.

That is a security feature, not the shit big tech is offering here.

But of course the mechanisms in question are suddenly implemented for fraud protection instead of user security. Yeah, bullshit.



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