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Instead of the lunatic, "lead balloon" BS like this (or UBI, for that matter), I'd rather someone worked on requiring US websites to honor "do not track" by law
by m0zg 6y ago
Instead of the lunatic, "lead balloon" BS like this (or UBI, for that matter), I'd rather someone worked on requiring US websites to honor "do not track" by law. Right now there's this idiotic arms race where browser vendors (other than Google, of course) are baking in more and more anti-tracking, and adtech companies are piling on more and more sophisticated tracking on the other end. Because the problem is asymmetrical, tracking always beats anti-tracking.
Ideally, I'd like to have a switch that would just disable tracking on everything, and if I find out I'm still being tracked, I need to be able to sue. The whole tracking bullshit will solve itself in no time at all.
And no, GDPR cookie warnings are basically deliberate sabotage of this idea, because presented with an option with lots of text the user always clicks "yes".
- oneplane 6y agoGDPR doesn't say you have to 'warn' for 'cookies' but that you have to ask consent for data processing before doing it and you can't deny people if they don't want that. If you happen to use a cookie to track a user for data processing then you may pop up a cookie-specific message. In the end what needs to happen is exactly what GDPR is made for: don't grab people's data and track them unless they say it is OK to do so.