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		loumf on May 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: This page is anonymous That might be so, but it's still a possibly identifying fingerprint.

btilly on May 2, 2013 [–]

Sorry, but only people who have never written HTML by hand could think that omitted </p> tags are a useful identifying fingerprint.

It can fit in with word choice, indentation, line length, etc as part of a personal pattern. But by itself it is as meaningful as saying "and".

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