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The largest company which tracks surfing habits without need for HTTP cookies is Amazon. When you visit every website hosted on AWS, Amazon tracks you, without saving/reading any cookies. The same is for any server hosting provider companies.

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Amazon stands to lose billions of dollars if what you say is found to be true. They host governments, banks, health care facilities, payment providers and more, all of which would sue the shit out of AWS if they found this out.

So I'm going to go on a limb and say you are probably wrong.

What I mean is "Amazon can track you when you visit a website hosted on AWS", I have not any evidences that they really did it. Just as the OP's title shows, Google can ..., but we have not any evidences that they did it.

When you visit a website hosted on AWS, your IP and browser fingerprint are all sent to AWS's servers, that is why they can track you. Whether or not they really track you is another thing.

> When you visit every website hosted on AWS, Amazon tracks you

Is that just an unsubstantial accusation or do you have a source for that?

Agreed. Would love facts on this.

Yes, that would be interesting to know more about. Potentially there is a lot of data to be harvested, isn't there?

Surely, there is a lot of lot of. Mainly your IP addresses and your browser fingerprints. Through the two, a server hosting company can collect your browsing habits when you visit the websites they are hosting, without your awareness. Whether or not they really do this is another thing. I mean they just can.

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