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These tiny icons could be tracking you across the internet – TechRadar
You can’t clear these Supercookies
The tiny icons that appear at the start of browser tabs may be easy to ignore but they could be secretly tracking you across the internet.
Thats the opinion of German software designer Jonas Strehle, who has explored using favicons as part of a ‘Supercookie’ tracking method.
Perhaps most worrying of all, this method of tracking online users could be used to track an individuals movements regardless of whether they have employed a business-grade VPN solution, are browsing in incognito mode, or adopting…
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