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Aha! I figured it out. Apparently my Tor browser got old extensions in there from older Tor versions (Tor Button and something i can't remember, they were set to deprecated and were disabled). I had Tor literally installed for... over 10 years or something, so I would imagine it didn't reset itself properly after doing one update or another. After removing the Tor Browser data folder and reinstalling it (for good measure, don't think that was necessary), I get random values on the page.
EDIT: One additional thought on that... I feel this is something Tor Browser should consider automatically when applying updates. At least a warning would be good to reset your data once in a while to stay non-unique.