[trotsky]

That Can't Be Dodged

Very interesting article, but the proclamation you can't avoid it seems a bit too far. When my browser exits it both deletes cookies and clears the cache, which looks like it's enough to break the tracks.

[chubot]

I do that too, but I don't think it's enough.

I use FlashBlock, which I think is enough, because they're apparently using flash cookies to recreate regular HTTP cookies (or something like that).

Flash is a huge POS in so many ways.

[jacques_chester]

There's a whole bunch of places to stash unique identifiers. And you only need to overlook one of them, because they will repopulate all of them the next time you hit a KM-using site.

HTTP cookies, flash cookies, ETags, HTML5 databases ... it just goes on and on.

[Tobu]

Flashblock isn't enough. The Firefox implementation lets the flash load, then hides it immediately.