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XCSme on Nov 29, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Please disable JavaScript to view this site

Actually, the main and most used mechanism of cross-site user tracking and "fingerprinting" are cookies, which do not require any JS to work.

jachee on Dec 1, 2020 [–]

How does cross-site user tracking do its thing?

XCSme on Dec 1, 2020 | [–]

Set a cookie using HTTP headers.

Use a tracking pixel (eg. image) to make further requests and cookie will be included in the request.

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