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Serverside doesn't have access to my tracking cookies. It has to be a request initiated by my browser to the third party domain
by vimda 7y ago
Serverside doesn't have access to my tracking cookies. It has to be a request initiated by my browser to the third party domain
- close04 7y agoThey will definitely keep tracking users based on info available to the server, like IP address. However that is orders of magnitude less precise than what is in place now.
- voidmain0001 7y agoIs it less precise? http://uniquemachine.org/ http://uniquemachine.org/
- close04 7y agoIt certainly should be. You can make it much more precise with the tracking mechanisms that browsers like Firefox are blocking now (tracking pixels, 3rd party cookies). It's the difference between having a snapshot in time available to a specific site vs. a whole history across the internet. Facebook can't show you customized ads if all it can recognize is that it's you. It already knows who you are, you told it by logging in, now it needs to know everything you're doing everywhere else so it can connect all those dots to you. This can't work if all it can say is "this is definitely voidmain0001 from their home computer but I know nothing else about them". The only way is to share that tracking between companies which is more difficult and still more limited in scope than 3rd party cookies. I know you are voidmain0001 here and can read all your comments. But if I have no idea who you are on amazon.com so I can sell you your favorite tech in my ads then the usefulness of this information is limited. Just as a rule of thumb, if those mechanisms weren't adding to the precision then nobody would have invested so much in constantly developing them. P.S. The site above keeps failing half way for me. "Computer says no" type of thing.