evercookie

General discussion about the NoScript extension for Firefox
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baadcookie
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evercookie

Post by baadcookie »

hello, i got a bit concerned when i learned about this : http://samy.pl/evercookie/. Is this something noscript can handle ?

thank you.
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tlu
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Re: evercookie

Post by tlu »

If the site is not whitelisted, Noscript can handle this.

It might also help to add

user_pref("dom.disable_cookie_set",true);

to your user.js. This should prevent that javascript can set cookies. But I don't know if it really helps against this new method - and it might break other sites.
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