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		TekMol on April 18, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook Container for Firefox Looks like what it does is deleting a bunch of cookies. If it only was that easy! The real problem is not cookies. I can already delete those. The real problem is fingerprinting.

yetanotherjosh on April 18, 2018 [–]

And all this talk of cookies leaves out html5 features like localStorage. Targeting only mechanism for tracking does not solve the tracking problem.

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