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  "path": "/2026/04/28/tor-browsers-new-identity-button-didnt-actually-reset-your-fingerprint.html",
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  "textContent": "Tor Browser has a \"New Identity\" button that's supposed to give you a completely fresh start — like opening a brand-new browser with no memory of what you were doing before. But it turns out it didn't fully do that.\n\nResearchers discovered that a built-in browser feature (called IndexedDB, which websites use to store data on your device) could leave behind a kind of hidden \"fingerprint.\" — Read the rest \n\nThe post Tor Browser's \"New Identity\" button didn't actually reset your fingerprint appeared first on Boing Boing.",
  "title": "Tor Browser's \"New Identity\" button didn't actually reset your fingerprint"
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