> Even if Hulu turned off cookie respawning via etags, you can still track users this way, on the server side. I guess the tricky thing is to correlate the etag

> Even if Hulu turned off cookie respawning via etags, you can still track users this way, on the server side. I guess the tricky thing is to correlate the etag of the tracker resource with the rest of the requests that a user makes on a site. The important distinction is that the ETag is literally no different than a cookie, when used this way. Turning off caching is the new turning off cookies.