Re:New net rules set to make cookies crumble
by djg38 on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @05:33AM
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The ad networks and such will just track you through browser/device fingerprinting instead of cookies. Except for extremely tightly controlled, homogenous systems in corporations, it doesn't take much info beyond your IP and user agent to uniquely identify a PC. Your history/cache, fonts, plugins, screen/viewport size, etc. are all discoverable from the browser.
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Re:New net rules set to make cookies crumble
by gus_massa on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @07:10AM
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The EFF made an online "unicity" test one year ago: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
HN discussion: (36 comments) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1082464
Re:New net rules set to make cookies crumble
by wladimir on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @07:36AM
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Indeed -- it'd be the browsers job to make this kind of profiling less effective. Just restricting cookies is not enough.
Does anyone know of a firefox addon (or for another browser) that 'homogenizes' the info sent to sites?
Re:New net rules set to make cookies crumble
by JoachimSchipper on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @08:38AM
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TorButton does that (and, of course, allows you to switch Tor on/off).