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... that syncing zombie cookies can create a evercookie clone?

Source: Acar, Gunes; Eubank, Christian; Englehardt, Steven; Juarez, Marc; Narayanan, Arvind; Diaz, Claudia (2014-11-03). "The Web Never Forgets: Persistent Tracking Mechanisms in the Wild". Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. CCS '14. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. p. 683. doi:10.1145/2660267.2660347. ISBN 978-1-4503-2957-6.

ALT1: ... that the practise of matching cookies could expose personally-identifiable information? Source: Papadopoulos, Panagiotis; Kourtellis, Nicolas; Markatos, Evangelos (2019-05-13). "Cookie Synchronization: Everything You Always Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask". The World Wide Web Conference. WWW '19. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. p. 1439. doi:10.1145/3308558.3313542. ISBN 978-1-4503-6674-8.
ALT2: ... that cookie matching could compromise the encryption of VPNs? Source: Papadopoulos, Panagiotis; Kourtellis, Nicolas; Markatos, Evangelos (2019-05-13). "Cookie Synchronization: Everything You Always Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask". The World Wide Web Conference. WWW '19. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. p. 1439. doi:10.1145/3308558.3313542. ISBN 978-1-4503-6674-8.
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Antiqua et nova

Created by Sohom Datta (talk) and Rhododendrites (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

Sohom (talk) 23:54, 2 February 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Prefer both ALT1 and ALT2 for general understandability for the main page audience, though I admit the term "zombie cookie" is a lot of fun. Will leave up to the promoter to decide which of the three they like best. Earwig pass with 2.0%. Next time you nominate, please remember to use "moved to mainspace" instead of created; it makes it easier for your future reviewers to look for that. ThaesOfereode (talk) 17:27, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ThaesOfereode Will keep the "Moved to mainspace" message in mind. Regarding the hooks, We could do something like the following,

ALT 3: ... that syncing zombie cookies can create a cookie that is almost impossible to crumble ?
ALT 4: ... that syncing zombie cookies can create a cookie that is almost impossible to delete ?

Lmk if these would work better (I recognize that it still might be intelligible to a user if they are not familiar with web security/privacy, but still worth a try). Sohom (talk) 22:17, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sohom Datta: ALT4 is definitely fine with me. ALT3 is a little more opaque, but I wouldn't object to it being promoted. ThaesOfereode (talk) 23:36, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]