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by 1101010010 1129 days ago
Most of the nefarious tracking is taking place via canvas fingerprinting these days, clearing cookies does nothing but make the unaware user feel good they're "doing something".
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Care to elaborate?
https://browserleaks.com/canvas

Open it in a regular and "incognito" browser tab. This is a long term identifier of your browser which persists across cookie clearing, IP address changes and other ritualistic totems privacy-seeking individuals still inexplicably cling to.

How do one protect against this?
Simply don't allow Javascript.
Unfortunately, even that might not be enough these days with newer fingerprinting methods.