Web Tracking Mechanisms

WTB.txt

* Evercookie
* Supercookie (HSTS)
* Cookie syncing (Back-end database synchronization)
* Flash cookies
* Opt-In
* Opt-Out
* User ID detection
* Canvas Fingerprinting
* ETag Tracking
* WebRTC
* Clock Skew Fingerprinting
* Web Bugs
* Verizon Supercookie


References and Sources:
http://datenblumen.wired.de/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informationelle_Selbstbestimmung
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opt-out
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opt-in
https://www.anonym-surfen.de/help/wwwprivacy_technik.html
http://www.heise.de/mac-and-i/meldung/Hotelportal-Mac-Nutzer-schlafen-gern-teurer-1626368.html
https://trackography.org/
http://www.heise.de/netze/meldung/Firefox-und-Chrome-verraten-IP-Adressen-trotz-VPN-2534438.html
https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/handbuch_13.htm
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Verizons-Super-Cookies-offenbar-sehr-beliebt-2518106.html
http://www.sicherheitskultur.at/spuren_im_internet.htm
http://lucb1e.com/rp/cookielesscookies/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A4hlpixel
https://anonymous-proxy-servers.net/paper/fingerprinting-by-tcp-timestamps.pdf
http://thesimplecomputer.info/fingerprinting-cdi-how-to-deal-with-it
http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Das-Zombie-Cookie-1094770.html
http://www.heise.de/security/artikel/Security-Funktion-HSTS-als-Supercookie-2511258.html
http://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2014-18-Browserprofile-mit-Canvas-Fingerprinting-2283693.html
http://thesimplecomputer.info/fingerprinting-cdi-how-to-deal-with-it
http://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2014-18-Browserprofile-mit-Canvas-Fingerprinting-2283693.html
http://www.heise.de/netze/meldung/Firefox-und-Chrome-verraten-IP-Adressen-trotz-VPN-2534438.html
http://lucb1e.com/rp/cookielesscookies/
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices
http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out
http://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/#user-tracking
http://www.w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/#user-tracking
http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/#user-tracking
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527667
https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
http://www.ghostery.com
https://adblockplus.org
http://www.merchenta.com/wp-content/files/Merchenta%20Case%20Study%20-%20Virgin.pdf
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html#pixel-manipulation
https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs
https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs/blob/v0.5.3/fingerprint.js#L250
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts#Font_Smoothing
http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/10/02/stale-cookies-how-companies-are-tracking-you-online-today/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/technology/do-not-track-movement-is-drawing-advertisers-fire.html
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/livshits/papers%5Ctr%5Cprivaricator.pdf
http://33bits.org/2012/06/11/tracking-not-required-behavioral-targeting/
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2011/09/tracking-trackers-self-help-tools
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/strace.1.htm
http://samy.pl/evercookie/
http://docs.seleniumhq.org/
https://developers.google.com/ad-exchange/rtb/cookie-guid
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/if-youre-going-track-me-please-use-cookies/
http://w3c.github.io/fingerprinting-guidance/
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/191409/kissmetrics-finalizes-supercookies-settlement.html
http://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/ratcliffObershelp.html


Patches:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbrowser.git/blob/HEAD:/src/current-patches/firefox/0019-Add-canvas-image-extraction-prompt.patch