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Re:What is Differential Privacy? by bla2 on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @03:41AM (#11907734)
How would the cookie from the work get to the phone?
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Re:What is Differential Privacy? by mtbcoder on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @07:24AM (#11908557)
You don't need to rely on cookies anymore to identify someone online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint
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Re:What is Differential Privacy? by bla2 on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @02:57PM (#11911236)
Sure, but that's not cross device.
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Re:What is Differential Privacy? by Twisell on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @03:58AM (#11907784)
I must have been connected to the same Gmail or Facebook account at some point on both devices. However as I said I purposely never stay logged in to google services. Yeah, I can flush all cookies (thus annoyingly resetting all legit cookies as well).

But this is not how privacy should work, cause there is a lot of people out there that don't read HN and only recently found out that there is a lot pastry inside their computers.

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Re:What is Differential Privacy? by HappyTypist on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @06:08AM (#11908263)
Your browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) most likely uses Google SafeSearch. That phones home with a super cookie every 30 minutes.
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