- From: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:27:28 +0100
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>, Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>, Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
On 2011-09-25, at 18:59 +0100, L. David Baron wrote: > That said, I keep hearing about how sites are or may be using other > methods to track users (flash local shared objects, fingerprinting), > possibly in combination with each other. There are significant pieces of today's Web Architecture that depend on keeping a certain amount of client state — in-browser caching comes to mind as a rather fundamental example. If there is sufficiently high-entropy client side state, and if that state can be accessed by a web application (using JavaScript code or HTTP or something else), then tracking is technically possible.
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