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I guess my point is "how much anonymity is it reasonable to expect?" Should I have a problem with the fact that nigh-on every URL in the world will leave behind
by oneeyedpigeon 9y ago
I guess my point is "how much anonymity is it reasonable to expect?" Should I have a problem with the fact that nigh-on every URL in the world will leave behind a little footprint when I request it? I don't see an enormous problem with a website anonymously recording the fact that I've clicked a link.
("anonymously" assuming I'm blocking their cookies, which I would if I were that paranoid)
- philliphaydon 9y agoI don’t mind sites tracking to know what products sell and what doesn’t, what browsers people use or how Long I spend on the site etc. What I hate, is the fact that I go to agoda, I search for hotels in jiufen in taiwan, I look at only 2, I book one of the 2, I close it. Open up Facebook on my phone seconds later and have adverts saying: hey how about these 2 hotels in jiufen. That shit annoys me. Stop following me and tracking what I’m doing and sharing it with all these companies. It makes me want to not use the internet...
- fixermark 9y ago> ("anonymously" assuming I'm blocking their cookies, which I would if I were that paranoid) Note that cookies are mostly a convenience vis-a-vis tracking. For user tracking, there's nothing really stopping the server from vending you a version of their site with custom CSS that loads images with a fingerprint in the URL, which would still work with cookies disabled. That'll get you coherent signal on a session (gluing different sessions together would be a bit more challenging, of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were possible).
- goialoq 9y agoa footprint is not a fingerprint. This whole thread is about non-anonymous tracking.