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You absolute can fingerprint someone without JavaScript enabled. This article explains what signals a website can use when JS is disabled, and those signals include probing what CSS features your browsers supports.
https://fingerprint.com/blog/disabling-javascript-wont-stop-fingerprinting/
Unfortunately it looks like the demo link in their article doesn’t exist anymore. It definitely used to, because I remember testing it few years ago. But the write up is still good.
Looks like the demo is open source: https://github.com/fingerprintjs/blog-nojs-fingerprint-demo
That's a cool project but most websites are using JavaScript for tracking, and I doubt most website have the afford to even use CSS just to track someone who doesn't have JS on.