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Selectively enable cookies

Selectively enable cookies

Posted Feb 5, 2011 2:14 UTC (Sat) by idupree (subscriber, #71169)
In reply to: Selectively enable cookies by felixfix
Parent article: Web tracking and "Do Not Track"

Tracking often uses a lot more data than cookies. For example see https://panopticlick.eff.org/ . User-Agent, preferred this or that, IP address, etc... even without cookies, sites can have a pretty good guess at keeping a timeline about you.


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