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🕵️ How Companies Track You Without Cookies
People think deleting cookies makes them invisible.
Modern tracking doesn’t care about your cookies, it cares about you.
Here’s how companies (and sometimes investigators) still identify you:
1️⃣ Device Fingerprinting
Your device leaks a unique “signature”:
• Screen size
• Timezone
• Installed fonts
• Graphics card
• Browser version
Put together? It’s more unique than your fingerprint.
2️⃣ Canvas Tracking
Websites force your browser to draw an invisible image.
How your device renders it reveals exactly who you are.
You can’t delete this.
You can’t block this.
Most people don’t even know it exists.
3️⃣ Passive Signals
Your browser gives away:
• Battery percentage
• Audio hardware
• Touchscreen capability
• System acceleration
• Keyboard language
These tiny details build a profile that’s almost impossible to fake consistently.
4️⃣ IP Triangulation
Not just your IP.
Your IP history, movement patterns, login timing, and behavioural rhythm.
Humans are predictable.
Machines notice.
OSINT Lesson:
If you think you’re “anonymous,” it just means the person investigating you hasn’t started yet.
🎭 101 ANONYMITY course is coming next week where I’ll teach what basic measures you can take to maximize your anonymity so you can browse safely and responsibly,
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