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		superjan on Nov 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using a date-modified header to detect unique visi... On the other hand, now that we know about it is easy to defeat: a privacy conscious browser will just add a random amount of minutes/seconds in the “if modified since” header. The only risk is you sometimes trigger a reload because the resource was modified in that interval.

Kuinox on Nov 30, 2022 [–]

It's harder, but you still leak bits of informations. If the random function is known, statical analysis can still leak out a bit of information.

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