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> what are they doing with this data?

As a company selling via the internet it would be handy to know what drugs/prescriptions a prospective client (via fingerprinting) is taking... it would certainly change what/if I marketed to them.

Of course the concept of retail companies having even the slightest access to a customer's medical/health/drug information for marketing purposes is a compelling plot for Black Mirror.



Amusingly, right as I read this reply, I get a chain of heavily-obfuscated JS loading with the text

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Weird. I don't get it even though I use VPN + firefox w/ resistfingerprinting




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