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This is brilliant, but now it's only a matter of time until it's in actual use. Sort of like how evercookie was a clever hack meant to call attention to privacy

This is brilliant, but now it's only a matter of time until it's in actual use. Sort of like how evercookie was a clever hack meant to call attention to privacy concerns, then was put into actual production sites.

Zirro 15y ago
Do you have any examples of sites/companies that put the techniques into use as a direct result of Evercookie exposing them? EDIT: Why am I being downvoted for this question? I am seriously interested, so that I can avoid contact with them.
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- jackshepherd 15y ago
  I'm not sure if you can say that it's a direct result of Evercookie, but a number of high profile sites use this kind of tech - for example KissMetrics.com is used by a number of big companies, and they use ETAG cookies, Flash cookies - the lot.
  - hornbaker 15y ago
    And KissMetrics and their customers caught heat from it: http://www.extremetech.com/internet/91966-aol-spotify-gigaom-etsy-kissmetrics-sued-over-undeletable-tracking-cookies http://www.extremetech.com/internet/91966-aol-spotify-gigaom...