Re: "An Empirical Study of Web Cookies"

"We find that less than 1% of the entities that place cookies can aggregate
information across 75% of web sites."

For me, the worrying implication is that there are more than 0% of entities
capable of aggregating information accross 75% of web sites.

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
wrote:

> --------
> In message <F5A0C0A3-0492-4E7C-A1E6-DCF1F5E30A3C@mnot.net>, Mark
> Nottingham wri
> tes:
>
> >Given our current activities around cookies, this may be interesting to
> >many (if you haven't seen it already):
> >  http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~pb/www16_final.pdf
>
> ... furthermore I think that cookies should be removed.
>
> They do far more harm to privacy than any lack of encryption ever did.
>
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