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How else can websites get my information?

In a series of three previous questions, What can a website I visit tell about me? and What are browser cookies and how are they used? and What are tracking cookies and should they concern me? I discussed some of the information that websites get automatically, or through legitimate means by virtue of using cookies, and then how cookies can be used "behind the scenes" by networks of websites to track your visits to sites in the network.

In this article I'm going to cover three loose ends that while unrelated to each other are other ways that websites can get information you probably didn't realize you were giving them.

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