According to this article I just received from a newsletter, the Super Cookies are back amongst us again, even though the FCC clamped down on the practice.
I will post the link instead of writing much about it.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article...=nl.e101&s_cid=e101&ttag=e101&ftag=TRE684d531
a short blurb from the article has a link to see if your Carrier is Tracking You...
Supercookies are back
Tracking headers are back in play, and more mobile carriers than AT&T and Verizon are using them. To determine which mobile carriers are involved and the prevalence of tracking headers, the people at Access developed the Am I Being Tracked? website illustrated at the beginning of the article. "The website performs several simple tests to determine whether users are being tracked," the paper's authors write. The procedure is as follows:
I will post the link instead of writing much about it.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article...=nl.e101&s_cid=e101&ttag=e101&ftag=TRE684d531
a short blurb from the article has a link to see if your Carrier is Tracking You...
Supercookies are back
Tracking headers are back in play, and more mobile carriers than AT&T and Verizon are using them. To determine which mobile carriers are involved and the prevalence of tracking headers, the people at Access developed the Am I Being Tracked? website illustrated at the beginning of the article. "The website performs several simple tests to determine whether users are being tracked," the paper's authors write. The procedure is as follows:
- Determine whether the device making the request is a mobile device operating on a 3G, 4G, or LTE carrier network.
- Extract the user's IP address from the normal HTTP header (not the injected header).
- Look up the IP address in an IP geolocation database, matching the IP address with publicly available information about where the IP range is located.
- Look for any unusual or custom headers in the HTTP request and, if found, they are logged.
- Results of the test are returned to the user stating whether the user is being tracked.
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