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People always forget that something tracking companies can always do is simply ask their customer to create a dns subdomain that forward to their ip adress. The
by bsaul 13y ago
People always forget that something tracking companies can always do is simply ask their customer to create a dns subdomain that forward to their ip adress. Then all your browser see is a first party cookie, but it actually sends information to the third party.
That's already what omniture is doing, and having a strong policy against third parties will only make others do the same.
- salmonellaeater 13y agoAt that point it becomes a question of whether browsers can be uniquely identified so they can be tracked across sites. If the advertiser can place a cookie from site A and a cookie from site B, they don't have a way to link them unless the browser is unique. Users who care about privacy are going to have to defeat browser fingerprinting[1]. [1] https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/
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- troels 13y agoThat's clever - I hadn't thought of that. But then I suppose we could maintain a list of IP's of known trackers and block on that level.