Nevercookie Eats Evercookie With New Firefox Plugin

oma · Nov 10, 2010

For anyone who is concerned about this form of cookies, there will be a new add-on for Firefox available by the end of this month.

http://www.securityweek.com/nevercookie-eats-evercookie-new-firefox-plugin

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The plugin extends Firefox's private browsing mode by preventing Evercookies from identifying and tracking users.

"Recent developments in Web tracking technologies have rendered the privacy tools built into browsers almost completely ineffective," said Lance Cottrell, founder and chief scientist for Anonymizer. "Anonymizer Nevercookie will close the gap between Firefox's privacy features and actual privacy so that when you go into private browsing mode, you are truly protected."

Evercookie is a new, more persistent cookie form that enables the storage of cookie data in a number of different locations, such as Flash cookies and various locations of HTML5 storage. This allows websites to track user behavior even when users have enabled private browsing. Because an Evercookie stores data in locations outside of where standard cookies are stored, an Evercookie can rebuild itself unless users go through a number of steps to completely clear and reset their local storage.
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oma · Nov 10, 2010

Re: Nevercookie East Evercookie With New Firefox Plugin

DUH! :-o Thread Title should read: Nevercookie Eats Evercookie etc...

Sorry!

TimW · Nov 10, 2010

Re: Nevercookie East Evercookie With New Firefox Plugin

oma said: ↑

DUH! :-o Thread Title should read: Nevercookie Eats Evercookie etc...

Sorry!
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Fixed. :major

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Nevercookie Eats Evercookie With New Firefox Plugin

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