evercookie

A special kind of HTTP cookie that is especially resistant to deletion by the user.

Noun

  1. A special kind of HTTP cookie that is especially resistant to deletion by the user.
    • A breed of cookie known as evercookie writes data to multiple locations to make it next to impossible ever to remove it completely (http://samy.pl/evercookie/). - 2014, Emmett Dulaney, Chuck Easttom, CompTIA Security+...

Origin

From ever + cookie.

Forms

evercookies

Related

supercookie