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cont4gious
on May 20, 2011
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Firefox add-on with 7m downloads secretly tracks y...
but absolutely none of that requires a unique identifier, which is where this article focuses most of it's gripe.
willidiots
on May 20, 2011
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It seems like the "Integrated Traffic Rank indicator" could, if they wanted to distinguish uniqueness by
users
rather than unique IPs.
Not that it's a good idea.
beagle3
on May 20, 2011
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While I usually follow "do not ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity", I don't think this case is adequately explained by stupidity.
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