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// supercookies

what is ETag / cache-based cookie?

The server hands each visitor a unique ETag (or Last-Modified) on a cached asset; the browser replays it in the next If-None-Match request, so the validator IS the identifier, with no cookie in sight.. Fast-decaying: browser mitigations land release-to-release; asOf 2026-06-15. Distilled from the richards supercookies catalog.

source capture as of 2026-06-15

in the benchmark

ETag / cache-based cookie is tracked as part of the supercookies taxonomy. see how tracked tools score against it on the capability matrix.

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