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by cleverjake 5435 days ago
is there any indication on where the data is stored?
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Yes, but not easily seen unless you have a tool like FireBug to see.

It works by setting a unique cache tag (etag as in screenshot) for each user of a resource such as HTML, JPG, GIF, etc files. The later requests can then be extrapolated of what the user views per site. It's in effect, a cookie.

I think it's quite brilliant as an alternative to cookies but unfortunately I can't use it as a form of cookies as they are not a HTTP standard.

More: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/HTTP_ETag

Etags are an http standard.
Haven't looked at KISSmetrics, but I assume it's some manifestation of evercookie: http://samy.pl/evercookie/
Yep the "never before seen in the wild" ETag approach was implemented September 2010 in an easy-to-use library. Very clever, but it seems like Samy Kamkar deserves the credit here, not the brilliant researchers who found the library's approaches being used somewhere.