Re:List of Websites not available in the EU because of GDPR
by dspillett on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @09:39AM
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That doesn't help if the implementation is bad (as many are) and drops tracking cookies until out-out - your main session still get the tracking nuggets.
> in Firefox at least no cookies are shared between public/private
That is also the case for incognito/private/what-ever-they-brand-it mode in Chrom{e|ium}, IE, Edge, and I assume (though I haven't tested this myself at all) Safari and others too.
Though there are some clues that can leak from normal to private due to known bugs & edge cases in the browsers and common add-ons (like flash), search for "evercookie" to find some references about that, and there are other ways to fingerprint or track you which might be less reliable but still apparently work well enough for people to use them.
> in Firefox at least no cookies are shared between public/private
That is also the case for incognito/private/what-ever-they-brand-it mode in Chrom{e|ium}, IE, Edge, and I assume (though I haven't tested this myself at all) Safari and others too.
Though there are some clues that can leak from normal to private due to known bugs & edge cases in the browsers and common add-ons (like flash), search for "evercookie" to find some references about that, and there are other ways to fingerprint or track you which might be less reliable but still apparently work well enough for people to use them.