Kissmetrics Super Cookie Opt-Out
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 8:56AM The Wall Street Journal has been tracking the story of a particularly invasive variety of tracking cookie from a company called Kissmetrics. This cookie lives outside the places where cookies are normally stroed in your computer, and spawns new tracking cookies whetnever it wishes.
Many feel that it is invasive and unreasonable in it's behavior, and intentionally difficult to find and remove.
After significant outcry, the company has added a simple web page to turn off it's tracking. If you use more than one browser or machine, you need to visit it from every one.
Regardless of how yopu feel about Internet privacy, it's good practice to send a message about this kind of poorly disclosed and enexpectedly invasive tracking.

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