In the early 2000s I was using Opera and for a while I had set it to block 3rd party cookies. Unfortunately Yahoo Mail was one of the few sites that stopped wor

In the early 2000s I was using Opera and for a while I had set it to block 3rd party cookies. Unfortunately Yahoo Mail was one of the few sites that stopped working, so I had to disable the setting again. While it's nice that the original cookie specification is GDPR compliant, ultimately it is better to have the actual GDPR. The article mentions browser fingerprinting, and it seems to me very hard to define a technical specification that completely blocks any kind of fingerprinting. Whereas the GDPR basically says "no unnecessary data collection without consent", sidestepping the whole technical aspect and going straight for the intent. > The browsers messed up too! I think this is an interesting remark, because what ultimately happened is that adtech captured (a giant chunk of) the browser industry with Chrome. And I'm not sure whether IE (historically) lacking tracking protection was adtech influenced, or a case of "the browsers messed up", or something else.