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		woud420 on May 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Privacy-Preserving Ad Click Attribution for the We... Considering that Mobile is about 50% of web traffic and that cookies are not very useful on mobile as well as ITP, I would say fingerprinting has been a very practical in building user profiles.

mobjack on May 22, 2019 [–]

Cookies still work on mobile and ITP can be bypassed. Cookies are still king.

It is just that trackers are relying more on first party cookies than 3rd party ones.

woud420 on June 1, 2019 | [–]

I'm unsure as how you would identify people across apps using cookies but.. okay.

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