[ExI] Tracking your internet browsing

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Fri Oct 25 11:05:20 UTC 2013


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> You're not anonymous unless you're running the Tor Browser Bundle,
> and NoScript set to JavaScript disable.
>
> See https://panopticlick.eff.org/ (down for scheduled maintenance atm).
>

True. And I do occasionally use Tor when I really want to be anonymous.
But this is just talking about third party advertisers using cookies
to do behaviour tracking.

Although new browser 'fingerprinting' techniques are being tested to
do tracking without using cookies. (And ways round that are also being
developed). It's an ongoing war!  :)

BillK



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