Researchers Expose Tracking Service That Can't Be Dodged
Found on Wired on Friday, 29 July 2011
The service, called KISSmetrics, is used by sites to track the number of visitors, what the visitors do on the site, and where they come to the site from - and the company says it does a more comprehensive job than its competitors such as Google Analytics.
"Both the Hulu and KISSmetrics code is pretty enlightening," Soltani told Wired.com in an e-mail. "These services are using practically every known method to circumvent user attempts to protect their privacy (Cookies, Flash Cookies, HTML5, CSS, Cache Cookies/Etags...) creating a perpetual game of privacy 'whack-a-mole'."
Not that I want to say that this research could have needed more research, but it looks like NoScript or AdblockPlus will render their attempts useless.