> It just shows that "Clear cookies" button is no longer an effective privac... | Hacker News

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		points on Sept 22, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Evercookie: A cookie that undeletes itself from 8 ... > It just shows that "Clear cookies" button is no longer an effective privacy tool. It has never been. the vast majority (90%+) of browsers are uniquely identifiable simply from useragent, plugins, capabilities etc. https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf

polynomial on Sept 23, 2010 [–]

If privacy is dead as has been asserted there are no longer any effective countermeasures.

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