[g_mifo]

This seems similar (in concept, not implementation) to how google "worked around" Safari privacy settings and lost a lawsuit about it.

[redstate06]

Huh, apparently it was the same Stanford grad student who busted Google for the Safari cookies and Verizon for the respawning cookies. Kinda cool.

http://webpolicy.org/2012/02/17/safari-trackers/

http://webpolicy.org/2015/01/14/turn-verizon-zombie-cookie/