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Nevercookie Eats Evercookies

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-eat-heavy-metals dept.

wiredmikey writes "Anonymizer, Inc. has developed Anonymizer Nevercookie, a free Firefox plugin that protects against the Evercookie, a javascript API built and made available by Samy Kamkar (same guy who brought you the Samy Worm and XSS Hacking to Determine Physical Location) who set out to prove that the more you store and the more places you store it, the harder it is for users to control a Web site's ability to uniquely identify their computer. The plugin extends Firefox's private browsing mode by preventing Evercookies from identifying and tracking users."

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  1. And so another battle rages by Anonymusing · · Score: 5, Funny

    In development now: ForeverEverCookies, then NeverNeverCookies, then SuperCantTouchThisCookie, then ImGonnaEatYourDamnCookiesForBreakfast.

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    1. Re:And so another battle rages by werfu · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ho yeah, Cookie on cookie action!

    2. Re:And so another battle rages by tom17 · · Score: 5, Funny

      then SuperCantTouchThisCookie,

      Then Stop-HAMMERTIME!Cookie

  2. Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    As an Anonymous Coward, I'm really getting a kick out of this plugin.

  3. Re:Coming later this month by UnknowingFool · · Score: 3, Funny

    Less than a month? You must be new here. I look forward to the same story tomorrow. If I'm lucky, the next day too. :P

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