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New Method of Tracking UIP Hits?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the ip's-on-the-table dept.

smurray writes "iMediaConnection has an interesting article on a new approach to web analysis. The author claims that he is describing 'new, cutting edge methodologies for identifying people, methodologies that -- at this point -- no web analytics product supports.' What's more interesting, the new technology doesn't seem to be privacy intrusive." Many companies seem unhappy with the accepted norms of tracking UIP results. Another approach to solving this problem was also previously covered on Slashdot.

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  1. uhm, what? by Prophetic_Truth · · Score: 3, Funny

    new, cutting edge methodologies for identifying people....the new technology doesn't seem to be privacy intrusive

    The Wookie defense in action!

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  2. CPUID by frinkacheese · · Score: 4, Funny


    Sending your PCs unique CPUID along with every HTTP request would be ideal for this. You could also group up websites and use this to track people across websites. It would be great for marketing and for law enforcement.

    Oh, you all disabled your nice Intel CPUID? Why ever would you want to do that?

  3. UIP? by XanC · · Score: 4, Funny
    I tried to find out for myself, I really did. I can't figure out if any of these dictionary.com results apply. This is the complete list, and none of them seemed to fit. There's one kind of humorous one...

    International Union of Private Wagons
    Quimper, France - Pluguffan (Airport Code)
    Ultimate Irrigation Potential
    Uncovered Interest Parity
    Undegraded Intake Protein
    United International Pictures
    Universidad Interamericana de Panamá
    Unusual Interstitial Pneumonitis
    Upgrade Improvement Program
    Urinating In Public
    User Interface Program
    USIGS Interoperability Profile
    Usual Interstitial Pneumonia of Liebow
    Utilities Infrastructure Plan

    1. Re:UIP? by Barsema · · Score: 2, Funny

      What you meant to say: all TLA not in TFA should be EFU ;-)

  4. Field test by enoraM · · Score: 2, Funny

    iMediaConnection starts a huge field test of tracking unique slashdot readers with their cutting edge technologies.

  5. Re:Um, nope. Can't happen. by rhizome · · Score: 4, Funny

    If a user doesn't wanna be tracked, they won't be tracked. This story is just press, free advertisement, and hype for this particular company.

    Whoa, whoa...let's not fly off the handle here! We don't know that they didn't pay anything.

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