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by thirsteh 5434 days ago
Haven't looked at KISSmetrics, but I assume it's some manifestation of evercookie: http://samy.pl/evercookie/
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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.