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Firefox's BetterPrivacy addon defeats all of these techniques. I just tested and confirmed this myself.

I also have Firefox clearing all cookies and all history on exit so that probably helped during my testing. BetterPrivacy dealt with the lso stuff though.

I don't know why people allow cookies to persist between browser sessions. I've been clearing them on exit for years now and it really doesn't make it more difficult to use the Web.

I only restart Firefox 1 or 2 times a month. Keeping all those tabs open really is far more useful than having the same sites bookmarked.

You can ask Firefox to restore the tabs from the last session. So restarting becomes cheap. (You can also do this to Chrome and Opera, and probably other browsers.)

but you have to exit the browser

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