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How do websites track you online ?
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Various types of information used by websites to track us online are as follows:
- IP Address — From our IP address, a website can determine our rough geographical location.
- Cookies and Tracking Scripts — They can identify and track our browsing activity across a website.
- HTTP Referrer — When a link to an outside website on a webpage is clicked, then the linked website will get opened and internally our information will be provided to the linked website.
- Super Cookies — Super Cookies are persistent cookies that come back even after we delete them.
- User Agent — It tells websites our browser and operating system, providing another piece of data that can be stored and used to target ads.
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