Panopticlick reveals the cookie you can't delete

  • 28 July 2014
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This article includes a test which will let you know how identifiable your browser is, interesting.
 
by Mark Stockley on July 28, 2014
 
Cookies are an essential part of the way the web works and occupy a pivotal position in the online privacy arms race. Organisations who want to track and profile people give them cookies and users who don't want to be tracked disable or delete them.
But what if there was a cookie you couldn't delete, and what if the steps you took to guard your privacy made you easier to track?
That is the spectre raised by a report, authored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), entitled How Unique is Your Web Browser?
The report uses data gathered by a tool called Panopticlick that determines how easy you are to identify based on your web browser's 'fingerprint'.
 
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Took the test very little that it identified on my browser which is a good thing. I have FireFox tweeked the best I can.

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