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High-Tech, Cross-Browser Fingerprinting

Do you trust that getting rid of third party cookies keeps you safe from tracking? Think again as there's a new cross-browser tracking that can follow you no matter how often you delete cookies or switch browser.

Nowadays, privacy issues arising from surfing the web are well known to the public and so are their countermeasures: cleaning your browser's cache, removing cookies, deleting history, installing ad-blockers and privacy aware extensions which reveal the trackers behind every page you visit. These are more or less the minimum of actions you can employ in feeling moderately safe.

Of course there's much more you can do, such as Tor-enabled browsing, using a VPN or embrace the extremes of SilentKeys' Privacy Aware Keyboard. Nevertheless, all these measures fall within the realm of the superuser and are beyond the expertise of the general public.

However there's a new technique that exploits other innocently leaked information by the browser in order to track your steps in cyberspace; a sophisticated approach which:

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