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		stanleydrew on May 17, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web Browsers Leave 'Fingerprints' Behind as You Su... As far as I know Google tracks with cookies in the standard way. I would be pretty shocked if they were tracking based on anything like fonts or plugins. Is there already evidence to the contrary though?

thechangelog on May 17, 2010 [–]

While I'm not aware of anything it certainly stands to reason that they would, especially with their DoubleClick network.

If the EFF with their limited resources figured this out, Google likely would have, too.

jrockway on May 17, 2010 | [–]

Google and Doubleclick just give you a cookie, though. They don't need to be nefarious.

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