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There is one silver lining in carrier grade NAT. combine that and all facebook ends up with is you are one of a few hundred firefox users in some geographical area.



Not necessarily! Other fingerprinting details can surface identity even when user agent and IP are unreliable. If you've got a specific screen resolution, you're tagged. If you've got a specific version of some piece of software (Flash, for instance) you're tagged.


I believe also fonts installed. EFF has a great tool regarding fingerprinting https://panopticlick.eff.org


Not true

Everything down to the fonts you have installed can be used to track you

https://amiunique.org




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