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It 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
by mantap 6y ago
It 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 6y 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 6y 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.