[schoenobates]

“... abusing over a dozen technologies...” is this a proof-of-concept or a real thing ? It just seems too horrendous to be real.

I think your comment really hits the nail on the head, IMHO the frustration shouldn’t be directed toward Apple but more toward the groups who have pushed the tracking practice so far to necessitate such draconian measures.

[wmeredith]

This is 100% correct. Being upset at Apple here is exactly like publishers whining about ad blockers when they should direct their frustration and anger directly at the ad creators (or themselves) for foolishly abusing their audience.

[brlewis]

No, the two are different. Ads are only used for ads. localStorage has lots of uses, tracking users being only one of them. Apple is throwing out the baby with the bath water. Ad blockers merely throw out bath water with varying levels of dirtiness.

[_never_k]

This is real, but also not new (as you can tell from the name check on Flash, Silverlight and IE). They used to be called "supercookies", but that term has come to mean something else in the last few years.