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Killing the Evercookie (Google Chrome w/o Restart)

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. http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2010/10/killing-evercookie-google-chrome-wo.html
http://singe.za.net/blog/archives/1014-Killing-the-Evercookie.html (Hi Slashdot & The Register readers. Make sure to check the 2nd part on killing iPhone Evercookie's too)

Killing the Evercookie - Dominic White

UPDATE: An iPhone developer has turned this into an awesome little SBSetting addon . You'll still need a jailbroken phone but can install it via Cydia. My previous experiments in killing the Evercookie in Safari sparked similar posts describing how to do the same for Chrome and Firefox .

Killing the Evercookie - Part2 MobileSafari - Dominic White

http://singe.za.net/blog/archives/1016-Killing-the-Evercookie-Part2-MobileSafari.html
evercookie is a javascript API available that produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser.

evercookie - virtually irrevocable persistent cookies

http://samy.pl/evercookie/
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/researchers-find-methods-kill-persistent-evercookie-101910

Researchers Find Methods to Kill Persistent 'Evercookie' | threatpost

The persistent method that security researcher Samy Kamkar introduced last week for storing tracking data on a user's machine, known as the "Evercookie," is even more worrisome when used on mobile devices, according to another researcher's analysis.