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by MichaelSalib 4943 days ago
Cookies aren't really necessary, you can track people server side based on their browser make up, and they won't know they're being tracked.

In theory, maybe. In practice, no that's not true. The big web advertising companies all subscribe to the Internet Advertising Board's code of standards which prohibits anything like panopticon-style user tracking.