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"User-interface customization" cookies are actually explicitly exempt from EU consent requirements: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm ht

• solarkraft 8y ago
  Yet you could use them to do that once there is a significantly high amount of customised settings ...
  • ilyanep 8y ago
    Wasn't there some website where you could pull a relatively small number of easily accessible prefs from the browser (OS, list of fonts, browser, etc.) and get a nearly uniquely identifying set of facts about someone?
    • noisem4ker 8y ago
      https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/ ?
      • ilyanep 8y ago
        Yup, the fingerprinting portion of that was what I had in mind.