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How would the cookie from the work get to the phone?
by bla2 10y ago
How would the cookie from the work get to the phone?
- Twisell 10y agoI must have been connected to the same Gmail or Facebook account at some point on both devices. However as I said I purposely never stay logged in to google services. Yeah, I can flush all cookies (thus annoyingly resetting all legit cookies as well). But this is not how privacy should work, cause there is a lot of people out there that don't read HN and only recently found out that there is a lot pastry inside their computers.
- HappyTypist 10y agoYour browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) most likely uses Google SafeSearch. That phones home with a super cookie every 30 minutes.
- mtbcoder 10y agoYou don't need to rely on cookies anymore to identify someone online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint
- bla2 10y agoSure, but that's not cross device.