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It’s a great initiative but I am afraid it will only change business mode of tracking providers to offer self hosted software that will no longer be 3rd party .

• dangrossman 8y ago
  That would achieve the stated goal of removing cross-site tracking.
  • zn44 8y ago
    I imagine self hosted solution would still forward the information to the third party in the backend
    • dangrossman 8y ago
      That alone doesn't allow cross-site tracking. You need a way to identify that the person on one site is the same person on another site, which is the role the third-party cookie plays. Firefox is eliminating the third-party cookie, and working to eliminate cookie-less fingerprinting techniques as well. Who hosts the information is not the concern.
      • snaky 8y ago
        > to eliminate cookie-less fingerprinting techniques as well. That's not feasible without turning off JavaScript completely.
      • zn44 8y ago
        Good point, that’s a great improvement. I just believe you would still be able to identify and fingerprint individuals across sites if you simply pass data through self hosted solution to 3rd part aggregate
• belorn 8y ago
  As someone who is continuously trying to get people to use self hosting over web services I somehow expect that will be a tough sell.