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Of course this is something you do. Throw it together with all of the other information you can clean from a browser (referrer, ip) and you can get a match with a very high confidence level.

Shops can do the same with baskets, you find that people are either identified by one very rare feature which reoccurs often or their little graph of 4-5 items which correlate 99% to them.



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