The practice of fingerprinting allows you to be <a { $url_tracked }>tracked for months</a>, even when you clear your browser storage or use private browsing mode — disregarding clear indications from you that you don’t want to be tracked. Despite a near complete agreement between <a { $url_standards }>standards</a> <a { $url_bodies }>bodies</a> and <a { $url_browser }>browser</a> <a { $url_vendors }>vendors</a> that fingerprinting is <a { $url_harmful }>harmful</a>, its use on the web <a { $url_has }>has</a> <a { $url_steadily }>steadily</a> <a { $url_increased }>increased</a> over the past decade.

就算您清除掉瀏覽器的儲存空間或是使用隱私瀏覽模式，您可能還是會被<a { $url_tracked }>追蹤好幾個月</a> — 而完全無視您明確表達不想被追蹤的意向。儘管制定<a { $url_standards }>標準規範</a>的<a { $url_bodies }>組織</a>以及<a { $url_browser }>瀏覽器</a><a { $url_vendors }>廠商</a>都近乎同意數位指紋追蹤是<a { $url_harmful }>有害的</a>，過去十年來，它在網路上的用量<a { $url_has }>仍然</a><a { $url_steadily }>穩定</a><a { $url_increased }>成長</a>。