The practice of fingerprinting allows you to be <a { $url_tracked }>tracked for months</a>, even when you clear your browser storage or use private browsing mode — disregarding clear indications from you that you don’t want to be tracked. Despite a near complete agreement between <a { $url_standards }>standards</a> <a { $url_bodies }>bodies</a> and <a { $url_browser }>browser</a> <a { $url_vendors }>vendors</a> that fingerprinting is <a { $url_harmful }>harmful</a>, its use on the web <a { $url_has }>has</a> <a { $url_steadily }>steadily</a> <a { $url_increased }>increased</a> over the past decade.

Po zaslugi sledenja prstnim odtisom vam je mogoče <a { $url_tracked }>slediti mesece in mesece</a>, tudi če izpraznite shrambo brskalnika ali uporabite zasebno brskanje – ne oziraje se na vaše jasne znake, da sledenja ne želite. Kljub skoraj popolnemu strinjanju <a { $url_bodies }>organov</a>, ki določajo <a { $url_standards }>standarde</a>, in <a { $url_vendors }>ponudnikov</a> <a { $url_browser }>brskalnikov</a> o <a { $url_harmful }>škodljivosti</a> sledenja prstnih odtisov, njegova uporaba na spletu v zadnjem <a { $url_has }>desetletju</a> <a { $url_steadily }>vztrajno</a> <a { $url_increased }>narašča</a>.