Consider fingerprinting as a commercially-oriented data collection method in addition to a "bot protection" method

Is data collection for "age verification" truly for age verification purposes only

Many bloggers and online commenters are not willing to accept that assumption

Is fingerprinting different

It is data collection for the purpose of establishing "online identity"

To the extent its based on user-agent strings or other HTTP headers it requires allowing a third party to MiTM TLS connections

Some bloggers and online commenters are opposed to computer users who MiTM _their own_ TLS connections

How is Cloudflare different