Check Your Web Browser S Digital Fingerprint With The Eff S Panopticlick Tool
Have you ever wondered how some website track your visit if you have cookies disabled? Sites like the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal that are behind partial paywalls have built-in systems that track both your internet protocol (IP) address and your web browsers meta data. When used in combination this information can often isolate a single computer on a network. This meta data lets these big sites show limited previews to one person on a local network, without blocking preview access to everyone on the same IP....