It's not evil. It just shows that "Clear cookies" button is no longer an effective privacy tool.
Browser vendors are aware of this already and working to make evercookie no worse than regular cookie, e.g. Mozilla blocked reading of visited link history, Chrome privacy window has link to Flash LSO controls. All vendors are working towards making it better integrated and more effective against all "evercookies".
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It's not evil. It just shows that "Clear cookies" button is no longer an effective privacy tool.
Browser vendors are aware of this already and working to make evercookie no worse than regular cookie, e.g. Mozilla blocked reading of visited link history, Chrome privacy window has link to Flash LSO controls. All vendors are working towards making it better integrated and more effective against all "evercookies".
> It just shows that "Clear cookies" button is no longer an effective privacy tool.
It has never been. the vast majority (90%+) of browsers are uniquely identifiable simply from useragent, plugins, capabilities etc.
https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf
If privacy is dead as has been asserted there are no longer any effective countermeasures.