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OK, so here's the basic issue. What did banning third-party cookies actually stop then? Nothing? So whatever they were able to do before banning third-party c
by jrochkind1 6y ago
OK, so here's the basic issue.
What did banning third-party cookies actually stop then? Nothing?
So whatever they were able to do before banning third-party cookies, why did banning third-party cookies matter at all?
The whole point of the CNAME as described is to get around third-party cookie bans. If getting around the third-party cookie ban doesn't actually help -- that seems to suggest the third-party cookie ban in the first place didn't actually do anything, if getting around it doesn't give you anything? no?
- thrwwy0304 6y agoIt stopped syncing identities with the first-class web APIs, and forced trackers to use browser fingerprinting. That _does_ help. It adds noise to things and helps us shift our focus to stopping fingerprinting.