Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Jump to bottom

tracking without any cookie, without browser fingerprinting... #4321

Open
hpvd opened this issue Nov 19, 2013 · 3 comments
Open

tracking without any cookie, without browser fingerprinting... #4321

hpvd opened this issue Nov 19, 2013 · 3 comments
Labels
Enhancement For new feature suggestions that enhance Matomo's capabilities or add a new report, new API etc.
Milestone
Backlog (Help wan...

Comments

@hpvd
Copy link

hpvd commented Nov 19, 2013

as we all know tracking can be done via

german explanation:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/User-Tracking-im-Web-Forscher-warnt-vor-heimtueckischer-Tracking-Technik-2048507.html

maybe this could become interesting if cookies become more and more unusable...
@mattab
Copy link
Member

mattab commented Nov 19, 2013

Thanks for the suggestion. This may indeed become more important and useful in the future.

@hpvd hpvd added this to the Future releases milestone Jul 8, 2014
@mattab
Copy link
Member

mattab commented Aug 1, 2014

See also this paper: https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/persistent/index.html

The Web never forgets: Persistent tracking mechanisms in the wild is the first large-scale study of three advanced web tracking mechanisms - canvas fingerprinting, evercookies and use of "cookie syncing" in conjunction with evercookies.

@tsteur
Copy link
Member

tsteur commented Aug 7, 2014

BTW: there is a library for this which also supports canvas fingerprinting which can bring an accuracy of up to 94%: https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs2 / https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs In combination with some other techniques this accuracy could be even increased

@tsteur tsteur mentioned this issue Apr 28, 2015
Closed
@mattab mattab modified the milestones: Long term, Mid term Dec 23, 2015
@mattab mattab modified the milestones: Long term, Mid term Dec 5, 2016
@mattab mattab mentioned this issue Oct 3, 2018
Open
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Assignees
No one assigned
Labels
Enhancement For new feature suggestions that enhance Matomo's capabilities or add a new report, new API etc.
Projects
None yet
Milestone
Backlog (Help wanted)
Development

No branches or pull requests
3 participants
@tsteur @mattab @hpvd