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Fun anecdote: my friends christmas gift for his wife was revealed pre-christmas. He bought a trip to London and a particular theater visit that had some special

Fun anecdote: my friends christmas gift for his wife was revealed pre-christmas. He bought a trip to London and a particular theater visit that had some special significance to her. But, he was doing all the planning on their shared computer so it started showing ads for this, so she added A, B, and C and in the end wasn't very surprised on christmas eve (still happy though).

scarface74 9y ago
So private browsing isn't just for porn?
- ascagnel_ 9y ago
  That wouldn't matter -- there are ways to fingerprint a browser/PC across sessions and into private browsing modes. https://medium.com/@ravielakshmanan/web-browser-uniqueness-and-fingerprinting-7eac3c381805 https://medium.com/@ravielakshmanan/web-browser-uniqueness-a...
  - user5994461 9y ago
    Last I recall, it requires javascript or flash to generate unique fingerprints reliably. Noscript or umatrix should protect you.