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Cookies are not the only way to tack you.

Websites can track you with localStorage, ETag headers and other cache-based methods, etc.

Some methods don’t event require any persistence on the client side, e.g. fingerprinting.




Cookie Autodelete also takes care of things like local storage and various caches.

There's not much you can do about fingerprinting though. You can try to limit it in firefox with the resist-fingerprinting option, but that has its limits.


And besides all that, most people use the same public IP address anyway…




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