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Is there a link available that's not behind a cookie wall?

• nawgszy 7y ago
  This was an interesting comment to me. I'm pretty anti-advertising, but somehow "cookie wall" just struck me as an absurd request. But when I think about it, cookies are kind of the engine powering advertising, so wanting to be able to avoid a cookie actually should strike me as reasonable. Best of luck to you. Atlasobscura doesn't really seem like a place I'd be worried about this kind of thing, but then again I don't know anything about who they are or which affiliations they hold.
• lstamour 7y ago
  Why not rotate your cookies more frequently on sites that insist on them, or when temporarily necessary? Personally I’ve adopted the approach where I trust a variety (3, in fact) of content blockers to also block major tracking networks. I’m less worried about the rest. I suspect that eventually websites will evolve to doing more third-party tracking via first-party integration on the backend or cname, but I’m only, hmm, passively paranoid about this sort of thing. I figure most uses of tracking by first-party is for statistics and metrics to improve that first-party site or service. I do wish selling traffic metrics was against the law, but back in the day magazines routinely sold customer lists, as do pizza places, so it would take a lot of social pressure to change this in most of the world...