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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 syste
by djg38 16y ago
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.
- gus_massa 16y agoThe EFF made an online "unicity" test one year ago: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/ HN discussion: (36 comments) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1082464 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1082464
- wladimir 16y agoIndeed -- 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?
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoTorButton does that (and, of course, allows you to switch Tor on/off).