A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

Re:A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online ... by franze on Friday November 18, 2016 @06:10AM (#12985926)

funny, it can track/sync me from my "normal" chrome window over to the anonymous chrome window, anybody have a guess how it does that?

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Re:A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online ... by jimboj on Friday November 18, 2016 @06:23AM (#12985976)

Did you copy and paste the URL? It adds an id on the end, it doesn't track me when I remove the id.

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Re:A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online ... by dschuetz on Friday November 18, 2016 @07:08AM (#12986161)

You sure it doesn't make you just think that it recognised you? Do you have all the same ID and the "achievements" in both? I started in Safari, switched to Chrome and the script said "Welcome Back" although everything looked like the script made a new profile.

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Re:A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online ... by gempir on Friday November 18, 2016 @06:11AM (#12985929)

I would guess IP Address is there anything else?

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Re:A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online ... by codsnake on Friday November 18, 2016 @07:06AM (#12986151)

Probably the URL's identifier added on the path...

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