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Fingerprinting on your own sites is pointless since only third party cookies are being removed. First party cookies still work like normal.


It gives you the ground truth with which you then correlate fingerprints from non-first-party domains.


The whole point of it is to correlate it to other data using the same fingerprinting method. Google is often a first party and a third party, so they need a way to line all that data up.




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