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evercookie is a javascript API available that produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser. Its goal is to identify a client even after they've removed standard cookies, Flash cookies (Local Shared Objects or LSOs), and others. evercookie accomplishes this by storing the cookie data in several types of storage mechanisms that are available on the local browser. Additionally, if evercookie has found the user has removed any of the types of cookies in question, it recreates them using each mechanism available.
evercookie - virtually irrevocable persistent cookies
New Cookie Technologies: Harder to See and Remove, Widely Used to Track You | Electronic Frontier Foundation
This is part 1 of a three-part series on user tracking on the web today. You can read Part 2 here . Cookies are still a privacy problem for web users, many years after privacy advocates first raised concerns about their use to track web browsing.
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Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies. Panopticlick tests your browser to see how unique it is based on the information it will share with sites it visits.