How does Clicky track clients who are blocking third-party cookies?

I had a Safari visitor and I know Safari blocks 3d-party, yet Clicky tracked them. How?

Cookies aren't required for tracking to work. We are in fact planning to phase out long term tracking cookies (UID, etc) since that seems to be the popular thing now. We'll still use a few temporary session ones for convenience/optimization though.

then how are people getting tracked?

Javascript, on which Clicky's tracking code is based.

Yeah cookies don't do anything beyond storing a small bit of information in plain text in your browser. The part that actually sends data to our tracking servers is Javsacript. Cookies aren't required for Javascript to run.

why are big tech obsessed with cookies? doesn't seem like a privacy big deal to me.

As usual the media has blown things way out of proportion and made people scared of cookies, when in fact there is nothing inherently evil about them. They are extremely useful. *shrug*

I agree. The thing that bothers me is the "internal" tracking, such as the fact that Amazon is referring books to me 10 years after I lost interest in the topic.

Honestly the worst tracking is on apps on phones, which you can't do anything about without jailbreaking. I'll show the mildest interest in something in an app and BAM all I see is ads everywhere for that thing in every app I use for a week. But even THEN... I can't deny the ads I'm seeing in these cases are extremely relevant. If I have to see ads, I'd rather they be relevant than just something random. So whatever!