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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by wrkronmiller on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @09:28AM (#23758984)
Incognito basically just means "doesn't show up in my history". There are many, many, ways to track users without needing cookies.
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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by gear54rus on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @09:39AM (#23759109)
> doesn't show up in my history

AND drop all cookies from all domains.

> There are many, many, ways

There probably are. I haven't ever seen it work though. If I get into incognito, my ads show something different my normal profile.

In theory, they can track you from your OS/browser combination (and many more variables), but is there a way to test it?

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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by shakna on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @10:30AM (#23759636)
It isn't theoretical. Google is currently facing a lawsuit (Brown et al v Google LLC et al) for tracking people who assumed Chrome's incognito meant Google would stop tracking them. [0]

[0] https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/06/google-facing-us5-7-billi...

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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by shadowgovt on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @11:26AM (#23760191)
That's a hilarious premise for a lawsuit, because that's never what incognito mode meant.
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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by r3trohack3r on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @10:47AM (#23759805)
The EFF has a great tool demonstrating the method: https://panopticlick.eff.org/

It’s not theoretical; it’s used in practice today.

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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @10:38AM (#23759712)
Font enumeration is the big one.
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