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I'm running a fairly old browser here, I have the ability to set when to accept cookies/third party cookies and which sites to whitelist and to set the retain p
by a_imho 9y ago
I'm running a fairly old browser here, I have the ability to set when to accept cookies/third party cookies and which sites to whitelist and to set the retain policy whatever I wish to. Also, I can add extensions like Self Destructing Cookies on a whim.
To me it looks more like Overengineered Tracking Prevention to be able to shovel in 'Machine Learning Classifier' for buzzword compliance.
- throw_throw 9y agoApple is quite good are targeting the lowest common denominator; most people do not know about these settings.
- Arnt 9y agoYou can, but are you better than the classifier at actually doing? Have you done it for every web site you visited today? Besides, there is some value in getting widespread blocking. When you're the only one who blocks, that's a signal. When Apple's new doodah blocks mostly-the-right-thing for 10% of the users, that's quite different. You get to be part of a crowd.
- a_imho 9y agoI would think so, yes, mainly because I don't have to take advertisers into consideration. And I can do a lot more for my browsing experience blocking wise, much much more. Invalidation is hard. Once you accept you have to tread down the road of accepting and deleting cookies and local storage I see no reason to wait 30 days. Why not purge them right on (tab)closing?. If you really care about privacy that is. Which could have been set to be default on the next update btw.
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- ams6110 9y agoMy browsers are set to purge all cookies upon exit. And I typically exit at least daily.
- Arnt 9y agoThen you log in to HN again, which enables HN to tie your new cookie to your old cookies and tell all its advertising and tracking partners. HN has no such partners, of course. But many other sites do, and correlate cookies in order to tie devices together.
- matt4077 9y agoQuote: "From the very beginning, we’ve defaulted to blocking third-party cookies." So what's the difference? Not everyone has enough time to waste to manually manage exceptions. So they're trying to make it smarter. If it works 90% of the time, it's still a big win, and you can still handle the remaining 10% yourself.
- a_imho 9y agoDifference is opt-out vs opt-in. If you care about your users privacy block first should be preferred.