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Technical analysis of client identification mechanisms
- scrollaway 12y agoIt's quite funny that a company like Google has both a web security team in charge of squashing fingerprinting methods, and an analytics team in charge of exploiting those very methods to the fullest extent. Then again it kind of makes sense. Who better knows?
- opendais 12y agoWell, I think it honestly harkens back to Google's original "Don't be evil" motto. I think most of the people at Google want to "Do the right thing" as long as they keep their jobs. They want to find the right balance, the problem is I think a large portion of Google has lost their way in that regard due to the need to make Google more money. If the volume isn't growing fast enough, they have to find newer...higher margin...options to grow.
- esMazer 12y agoAfter reading the post I don't think "they had lost their way" instead they are trying to find ways to help everyone involved.
- intortus 12y agoI would imagine this has value not just to analytics. Deanonymization has a lot of value in curbing abuse. Privacy is of paramount value, though, so it's hard to reconcile. To me it's a dilemma.
- magicalist 12y agoHave you actually looked at how Google Analytics tracks users? It's very straight forward, nothing like almost anything on this list.
- spacefight 12y agoLike cookies? Like shared cookies if you opt-in?
- rustyconover 12y agoThis is a good guide to some of the ways that evercookie uses to live on even after you've cleared cookies: https://github.com/samyk/evercookie https://github.com/samyk/evercookie