Beta Version of Nevercookie Released 77
wiredmikey writes "Anonymizer has released a beta version of Nevercookie, the recently announced Firefox plugin designed to protect against the Evercookie, a JavaScript API built and made available to prove that the more you store and the more places you store it, the harder it is for users to control a Web site's ability to uniquely identify their computer. Evercookie is a more persistent form of cookie that enables the storage of cookie data in a number of different locations, such as Flash cookies and various locations of HTML5 storage. This allows websites to track user behavior even when users have enabled private browsing. Because an Evercookie stores data in locations outside of where standard cookies are stored, an Evercookie can rebuild itself unless users go through a number of steps to completely clear and reset their local storage."
Nostrodamus eat your heart out (Score:5, Funny)
Re:First Posting as Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Funny)
Wrong! Hi John - how's that infected toe doing?
Re:First Posting as Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny)
Re:If you don't want to be tracked (Score:3, Funny)
"You'd have to randomize all the features of your OS and your browser and then you'd have to reboot between pretty much every website you visit."
Precisely why I simply sneak into my neighbors' houses and use their devices to do my nefarious deeds on the Internet.
Of course my plan will be foiled when an anomalous trend of interest in infectious diseases, video games and free thumbnail porn presents itself in geographic disproportion and is noticed by a Google algorithm specifically designed to search out such anomalies and exploit them for data-mining purposes.
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>>>>>Posted on my neighbors iPhone!