Thank you for supporting these videos: https://www.patreon.com/censiclick https://www.paypal.me/censiclick Twitter: https://twitter.com/CensiClick Music by Epidemic Sound (referral link): https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/3308ry/ The paper: https://www.cs.uic.edu/~polakis/papers/solomos-ndss21.pdf Firefox bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1618257 Avg. loading speed of websites: https://0x65.dev/static/docs/studies/tracker_tax.pdf Demo of Favicon tracking: https://supercookie.me/ Additional sources: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/02/new-browser-tracking-hack-works-even-when-you-flush-caches-or-go-incognito/ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/02/browser-tracking-using-favicons.html Many common web tracking methods still revolve around cookies but device fingerprinting is getting much more effective at avoiding the usual countermeasures. A new type of fingerprinting was now presented by a researcher group from Chicago: By exploiting the small website icons called Favicons visible on each browser tab, it is possible to create a unique identifier using subdomains and redirections that cannot be blocked by anti-tracking extensions, clearing cookies or even incognito mode. » Credits « Vectors by Nouri Atchabao from Vecteezy.com Stock footage by Videezy.com "Book icon" by SuperNdre; Licensed under CC BY 3.0(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/); Changes: 3D Extrusion, Animated, Text Removed "Cookie icon" by Daniele De Santis; Licensed under CC BY 3.0(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/); Changes: Color "Detection icon" by Puckung graphic design factory; Licensed under CC BY 3.0(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/); Changes: Color, Parts deconstructeds "Browser icon" by Webalys LLC (http://www.webalys.com/) "Floppy disc icon" by mohamed wahid (https://dribbble.com/medwep) "DuckDuckGo icon" by popcornarts; Licensed under CC BY 3.0(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/); Changes: None