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Browser fingerprinting called the new online tracking cookies

Original: Fingerprints are the new cookies > Have you ever played Akinator? You think of a character, a genie asks you some twenty

Commenters are comparing browser fingerprinting to the game Akinator: just as the genie guesses your character from twenty questions, websites can identify you by combining small details your browser reveals, such as fonts, screen size and settings. The argument making the rounds is that fingerprinting is quietly replacing cookies as the main way advertisers track people, and it is far harder to block or opt out of.

Why now: Renewed concern about privacy as fingerprinting increasingly replaces cookies for tracking users online.

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• Fingerprints are the new cookies > Have you ever played Akinator? You think of a character, a genie asks you some twenty questions, and somehow it knows. That’s fingerprinting in a nutshell, except your browser answers the questions for you. Once you understand information… · dallo@pouet.chapril.org · 2

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