[liberationtech] Anonymous blogger outed by analytics signature

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Wed Nov 16 11:09:01 PST 2011


On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 10:20 -0800, Peter Thoenen wrote:
> Known issue and resolved:
> 
> Firefox -https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/customizegoogle/ [tell it to set a new random anonymous analytic cookie every sessin] 
> 
> Chrome - http://sourceforge.net/projects/chromeprivacy/ [doesn't do it as well but does the job]

Please read more carefully. The cited issue is on -the blogger's side-
(ie in the blog setup), not the reader's/commenter's side (ie browsing).
This should be evident from the title, but is spelled out in detail in
the article.

> Everybody Else - SOL

An interesting stance to take on a list dedicated to battling the
default SOL condition for "everyone else".

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