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Removing an entire front in the War on Privacy wouldn't help? There are many things to fix if we want to reclaim privacy. There is certainly no single magic bu
by stubish 7y ago
Removing an entire front in the War on Privacy wouldn't help? There are many things to fix if we want to reclaim privacy. There is certainly no single magic bullet and it certainly isn't all going to happen at once.
- mantap 7y agoIt wouldn't help, it would just push it underground and make it harder to deal with. The opposite would work better. Create a standard for tracking people then legally enforce that all tracking conforms to that standard. Then users can opt out.
- criddell 7y agoImagine we didn't have already have cookies. If somebody suggested the creation of cookies as they are now, do you think nothing would change?
- derangedHorse 6y agoYeah, I do think nothing would change. The vast majority of people I know have complete apathy over 3rd party tracking. It's just not something on their minds (for both devs and non-devs)
- tripzilch 6y agoThis is because, "the browsers messed up" (quote from the article).
- chopin 7y agoBut if enough opt out, you're back to square one. It would be of more help if GDPR was enforced in a really painful way (to offenders). GDPR is not about cookies. It's about tracking without explicit consent. If offenders were fined into oblivion it would (hopefully) go away. Fingerprinting relies heavily on client-side Javascript, so attribution shouldn't be a problem.
- eru 7y agoOh, I didn't say it wouldn't help with privacy. I just meant that it wouldn't help much against tracking.