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How exactly is this more evil than a tracking cookie? To me it sounds pretty much the same.

• stingraycharles 13y ago
  The reason, at least here in Europe, is legislation: cookies are written by the website to the user's PC. As far as I understand, this alternative doesn't write anything to a device, thus circumventing the law.
• foobarqux 13y ago
  They can't be deleted or blocked. They are not confined to one device.
  • deleted 13y ago
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  • sspiff 13y ago
    After reading the article, I fail to see how these are not confined to one device. basically, the article suggests that they'll add a random unique ID to the browsers' identification (I assume they're talking about the user agent). How would this spread across devices?
    • foobarqux 13y ago
      My mistake. But they are trivial to correlate and I would expect them to be correlated.
      • sspiff 13y ago
        Correlating seems very easy & likely indeed, I didn't think about that.
• gmjosack 13y ago
  If it's tied to some "anonymous identifier" in the browser it's also possible to follow you in incognito mode.
  • lotu 13y ago
    I imagine that incognito mode would use a different anonymous identifier.