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RyanGWU82 makes a good point though. People only whined about the "evercookie" method of tracking because of the potential for abuse (across multiple Web properties). Why on Earth would you care if someblog.com knows for sure that you've been to their site five times? I don't think the problem here is that you can be tracked using multiple methods that were not originally intended for use in tracking. I think the problem is that people always had a false sense of privacy (i.e., there was ignorance about what can and cannot be used to track your client).

You're accessing a remote server. There will always be a way for sites to track your visits. There is a necessity for those sites to track your visits. Don't care about their necessity to track you? Stop going to those sites.



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