Re:Self-Destructing Cookies – add-on for Firefox
by Amadou on Saturday July 06, 2013 @09:50AM
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I am thinking that the RequestPolicy add-on would practically eliminate cache-based tracking by simply blocking all requests to unnecessary 3rd party sites. I would appreciate hearing your analysis of it.
Re:Self-Destructing Cookies – add-on for Firefox
by mike-cardwell on Saturday July 06, 2013 @06:11PM
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I am an avid RequestPolicy user. In fact, you'll find my name on https://requestpolicy.com/about.html
RequestPolicy would help against this sort of attack when performed cross-site. However, there is still a leak if a site can identify that you're the same user they previously saw. RequestPolicy wouldn't help against this as it's not cross-site.
I simply turned off disk and memory caching in Firefox (details in link above) and have been running this way for nearly two years. Browsing the web with cache is not as efficient, but with my ~8Mbit Internet connection, practically, I don't really notice any difference.
To get around the tracking issues, ideally, browsers would cache content, but it would be keyed on the domain in the address bar as well as the url of the content being cached. Also, content should be wiped from the cache when you leave the site it is linked to, ie there are no more tabs with the site open.