11 February 2021
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Tiny favicons can track users' movements online
Favicons can store a unique ID which is not easily cleared by a user and which can bypass VPNs and other privacy tools
A website's favicon could be used as 'supercookie' to covertly track the movement of users across the internet. That's according to German software designer Jonas Strehle, who recently published a proof...
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