Most users still think clearing cookies protects their privacy.
That is no longer true.
Modern websites use multiple tracking methods including browser fingerprinting, tracking pixels, and behavioral profiling.
I wrote a simple, practical guide explaining how it works and what you can do to reduce it.
https://techputs.com/how-websites-track-you-and-how-to-stop-it/
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Good post. There are additional ways of gaining some level of protection against fingerprinting, usually via plugins. Here I wrote an article a few years ago about it that continues being mostly relevant: https://blog.n41.lat/posts/resisting-web-tracking/
We have recently discussed how some actors are trying to control the Web by tracking as much user activity as possible. Tracking is done through several mechanisms including third-party cookies, third-party JavaScript snippets, and Web-browser fingerprinting. What these methods have in common is that they allow to uniquely identify a Web browser. When the tracking is shared by multiple Web sites (usually many thousands or even millions), the same Web browser can be tracked across these Web sites and virtually all the Web.
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