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No, your premise is wrong, all major browsers have committed to removing third-party cookies, or have already done so. And after third-party cookies, your IP ad
by laughinghan 6y ago
No, your premise is wrong, all major browsers have committed to removing third-party cookies, or have already done so. And after third-party cookies, your IP address is the next-easiest way to track you across sites.
that Facebook cookie works regardless of what your IP address is
Firefox has been blocking third-party cookies by known trackers, including Facebook, since last year [1]. Safari started blocking all third-party cookies (not just known trackers) in March [2], and Chrome committed in January to work towards removing third-party cookies [3].
And of course, all major browsers have provided the option to block third-party cookies since before IE6. I use this option, it rarely breaks things, and it's only getting rarer—and I don't use a VPN, so this would make me measurably harder to track across sites.
[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/09/03/todays-firefox-blocks-third-party-tracking-cookies-and-cryptomining-by-default/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/09/03/todays-firefox-bloc...
[2]: https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocking-and-more/ https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocki...
[3]: https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/building-more-private-web-path-towards.html https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/building-more-private-web-...
- dannyw 6y agoKeep in mind that Chrome also sends a high-entropy identifier that is certainly sufficient to identify you in combination with an IP address, to every Google property, including DoubleClick, on every request (first or third party).