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    The Dangers of Supercookies

    Aggressive new software is tracking your every move online. Here's how to stop it
    by Adam Clark Estes Aug 18, 2011 1 minute

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    Browser cookies have been around almost as long as the web. Invented by an engineer at Netscape in 1994, the method for keeping track of people's browsing that the evolution of a more advanced type of cookie known, appropriately, as a "supercookie" poses some serious privacy concerns. Used on websites like Hulu and MSN, invasive new tracking techniques like supercookies track users every move, steal your browser history and feed the data to advertisers, largely undetected. And whereas regular cookies are easy to find and delete, supercookies and history-stealing software are almost impossible to get rid of.

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