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> If more browsers were still User Agents in the literal sense, maybe we wouldn't have needed this legislation. Browsers could have informed people about what c
by JoshTriplett 7y ago
> If more browsers were still User Agents in the literal sense, maybe we wouldn't have needed this legislation. Browsers could have informed people about what cookies were, and could have presented the user with the option to never accept tracking cookies from Big Advertising.
Unfortunately, cookies are not conveniently labeled as "advertising" or "federated login".
That said, yes, it'd be nice if the legislation in question had mandated proper labeling of cookies, and then let the user's browser handle rejecting them.
- takeda 7y agoThat sounds good, but an infrastructure needs to be developed first, particularly a way to label which cookie is which and then have a law to enforce it. Ultimately though by default I use extension to destroy cookies as soon as I leave the page, I can place an exclusion for sites that I frequent but when I do that I just allow all cookies. My reasoning is that if I have credentials they can track me using these anyway. Anyway the whole thing is moot though, since advertisers are beyond cookies and use many other ways to track users. Now seems what their primary goal is, is to be able to tie multiple devices of the same user together.