Is nothing about the Internet true for long? If you learn something that makes you sound like you know what you are talking about, don’t quote it to others for more than a week because what you knew to be true a week ago (maybe even yesterday) may not be true today. Below are bullet points from an article in PC Magazine about Browser Fingerprinting that prove my point...
Ø Internet experts proposed reining in this abuse by letting browsers add a Do Not Track header to page requests.
Ø This effort fizzled because sites were free to ignore the header.
Ø Security companies responded by devising Do Not Track technology that actively prevented tracking.
Ø Trackers responded with new technologies such as supercookies, evercookies, Flash cookies, and more.”
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I use a Virtual Private Network (VPN). I have always thought this made me private because it kept the bad guys and the simply annoying guys from tracking me. Now I find out that My Security is a False Sense of Security.
Cleaners and Browser’s software can help the VPN maintain your privacy but VPNs do not make you fully anonymous online. Advertisers, for instance, have numerous ways to identify and track you as you move across the web.
More from PC Magazine...
Ø Trackers and cookies in websites try to uniquely identify you, and then watch for where you appear next.
Ø Sites and advertisers can also identify you by noting several unique characteristics, such as browser version, screen size, and so on.
Ø On their own, this information is harmless, but when companies compile enough of these identifiers, they form a Unique Signature—so much so that the process is called Browser Fingerprinting.
If you are better than I am, read it and be enlightened...Or will you be?
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
