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> There's a difference between something being provent theoretically possible in a laboratory environment and actually making it out in the real world.
Fingerprinting using IP address, running scripts, canvas fingerprinting, using installed fonts, and checking what resources are cached/blocked are all things that are being widely used in many websites, and are not just "theoretically possible".
They are even being sold as a product and are used by many companies.
Look at their customers - https://fingerprint.com/ .
This, it's also why it's in the category of "don't bother" https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-don... not only that it will make your browser easier to fingerprint as one of the Tor developers pointed out.
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