Re:The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iP...
by eli on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @10:36PM
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I go to Site A and get a cookie. Now I got to Site B and since it's on a new domain I have no cookies set and am basically a brand new visitor, so I get another cookie. Even if both those cookies are being relayed to some backend, how can it ever tell that I'm the same person on Site A as Site B?
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Re:The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iP...
by zyx321 on Thursday June 11, 2015 @05:48AM
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Then they'll have to start implementing workarounds. The EFF made an interesting tool [1] a few years ago to show how easily you can be tracked from your browser configuration and installed plugins/fonts/etc. There might be more advanced tricks nowadays.
Re:The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iP...
by PJones on Thursday June 11, 2015 @05:38PM
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Mobile is exactly where you don't want to rely on this kind of fingerprinting. Especially on iOS, it's a platform with only one rendering engine and no plugins.
Here's what it managed to get from my iPhone 6[1]. This would be the same 'fingerprint' as virtually every iPhone 6 user in the UK.
Re:The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iP...
by zmmmmm on Thursday June 11, 2015 @02:32AM
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The ad network is able to serve content natively through the domain of both A and B. That means they can send back a beacon pixel to Site B from Site A's domain, which will let them link the two ids. They only need to do it one time to link up the ids for a pair of domains.