No, plants, bacteria, mushrooms are obviously not sentient as they lack a brain.

It's not reasonable for a website to find out about my browser version, OS, keyboard layout and a zillion other things, fuck this.

All these things should be opt-in and like blocked by GDPR.

No, fingerprinting is a synonym of deanonymization.

No. If everyone (or browser installs) had identical fingerprints... Good luck deanonymising them.

Then avoid GrapheneOS

When you have to trust the OS images generated by the authors it becomes a massive issue.

You always trust the developers of software. The only way to stop that is to not use the software.

It's the opposite, the economy of scale favors defense.

The missing attribution pattern is nasty.

Or Debian -> Ubuntu

It's not the winning game at all.