Researchers Discover Powerful 'Supercookies' on MSN, Hulu
But no one wants to take responsibility
Researchers at Stanford and UC Berkeley have discovered that many major websites are using advanced new tracking methods so stealthy that they are nearly impossible for most computers to detect—but no one is willing to own up to them, reports The Wall Street Journal.
A new batch of “supercookies”—cookies that are so powerful they can re-create users’ profiles even after they’ve deleted regular cookies—were found on websites like MSN.com and Hulu.
After being contacted by the researchers, many websites using these supercookies claimed that they were unaware of them and said that they had been deleted.
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