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by ptaipale 2973 days ago
I guess this isn't typically based on cookies but device/browser fingerprinting.
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Which is exactly what I'm trying to avoid. I don't want to be tracked so I try to limit the amount of fingerprinting possible.
But for this it is probably good that the services do fingerprint us - so that we understand how well it can work. Otherwise we'd assume that cleaning cookies is enough and wouldn't know how well that tracking works, not only when services that we knowingly use are doing it, but also when some actual black hats do it.