Favicons Could Be the Supercookie That Tracks You Everywhere – Gizmodo Australia

As Apple prepares to launch its anti-tracking update for iOS, Facebook and other companies that have built their business on invading users privacy are nervous about the future. But theres always a new vulnerability waiting to be discovered. For instance, researchers now claim that a websites favicon can be used to stealthily track users in a way thats difficult to shake off.
Favicons are that tiny little icon that displays in the corner of a browser tab when you have a website open. On Gizmodo,…

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