---- On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 Frank wrote ----
> ... But privacy and security wise it's hard to justify cookies nowadays.
A Project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Defending Your Rights in the Digital World
https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party
trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the
web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites
without your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks that advertiser
from loading any more content in your browser. To the advertiser, it's like
you suddenly disappeared.
How does Privacy Badger work?
When you view a webpage, that page will often be made up of content from many
different sources. (For example, a news webpage might load the actual article
from the news company, ads from an ad company, and the comments section from a
different company that's been contracted out to provide that service.) Privacy
Badger keeps track of all of this. If as you browse the web, the same source
seems to be tracking your browser across different websites, then Privacy
Badger springs into action, telling your browser not to load any more content
from that source. And when your browser stops loading content from a source,
that source can no longer track you. Voila!
At a more technical level, Privacy Badger keeps note of the "third party"
domains that embed images, scripts and advertising in the pages you visit. If a
third party server appears to be tracking you without permission, by using
uniquely identifying cookies (and, as of version 1.0, local storage super
cookies and canvas fingerprinting as well) to collect a record of the pages you
visit across multiple sites, Privacy Badger will automatically disallow content
from that third party tracker. In some cases a third-party domain provides some
important aspect of a page's functionality, such as embedded maps, images, or
stylesheets. In those cases Privacy Badger will allow connections to the third
party but will screen out its tracking cookies and referrers.
Cheers,
Stephen
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