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I investigated supercookies (evercookie? no mention of samy in the article?) the other day in all of 5 minutes. Yes, they work on most modern browsers, and are
by GigabyteCoin 15y ago
I investigated supercookies (evercookie? no mention of samy in the article?) the other day in all of 5 minutes.
Yes, they work on most modern browsers, and are very difficult to remove entirely.
No, they do not store anything on any modern browser surfing in "privacy" mode.
I was pretty disappointed to be honest. I was hoping to use them to track fraudulent free trial abusers.
- tingletech 15y agoDid you look into Etag tracking? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag#Tracking_using_ETags http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag#Tracking_using_ETags This might work in "privacy" mode as far as I understand, unless you disabled the local cache? I have not tested this.
- daeken 15y agoI don't know about other browsers, but Chrome's Incognito Mode has a separate cache completely, which is wiped on closing.
- mike-cardwell 15y agoWiping the cache on browser close isn't a "good" solution. It doesn't prevent cross site tracking across a single session, which means your accounts can be linked together. I completely disabled the cache in Firefox two months ago for this very reason. I haven't noticed any performance problems with this in my general day to day browsing, but I have a decent broadband connection, and good connectivity at work so YMMV. Here's how I did it: https://grepular.com/Preventing_Web_Tracking_via_the_Browser_Cache https://grepular.com/Preventing_Web_Tracking_via_the_Browser...