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Because they pretty much all power some kind of actual functionality. Users want the website to show up in their timezone, in their language, and to respect the light/dark mode options. Those are all legitimate functions, which also get used for tracking.

Security and privacy focused browsers and tools like Apple Lockdown Mode make some pretty significant compromises to maximise security.



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