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More Technical Details in KISSmetrics’ eTag Saga
ADOTAS – It looks like what appears on screen when a cat runs across the keyboard: VAR KMCID=’Z9iGGN1n1-zeVqbgzrlKkl39hiY’; if(typeof(_kmil) == ‘function’)_kmil(); That’s the contents of the global identifier variable KMCID set when a user hit any site using KISSmetrics’ tracking technology (such as Hulu or Spotify) before July 29 and the third-party [...] more...
Suit Filed Against KISSmetrics and Pubs Over ETag Tracking
ADOTAS – History repeats itself — back in summer 2009 when privacy researcher Ashkan Soltani and friends put out a damning report about online tracking practices with Adobe Flash cookies (aka local shared objects) that undermined user privacy controls through the use of respawning HTTP cookies, class action lawsuits were [...] more...
Hulu Caught Respawning Cookies as ETags Enter Tracking Fray
ADOTAS – UPDATED Aug. 2, 5 p.m. EST — Ashkan Soltani informed us that his team found the KISSmetrics code, i.kissmetrics.com/i.js, that allowed Hulu to respawn cookies via ETags on more than 400. A new front has opened up in the tracking cookie battle. A follow-up report from the same researchers (including [...] more...
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