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It also takes you less than a minute to change the "disable all cookies" settings to true in your browser. Then tell us how you feel about not being able to con
by IMTDb 4y ago
It also takes you less than a minute to change the "disable all cookies" settings to true in your browser. Then tell us how you feel about not being able to connect on any websites, and how long until you revert the setting.
Cookies allow marketers to identify you - which is bad. They also allow all your tools to identify you - which is good. It's not like cookies are this inherently evil thing that has no legitimate use. They serve a real purpose but are also being abused. And as it turns out, it's not that simple to keep their usefulness while addressing their abuse. Because ultimately, both marketers and tools use the cookies in the exact same way, it's what they do after that is the issue.
Edit: hadn't seen you were talking about third-party cookies specifically. I fully agree with that. I have personally disabled them since safari disables them by default, and I have little to no impact on my day to day.
- ehsankia 4y agoAlso, like it or not, the majority of the internet runs on ads currently. Remember the outrage from Youtube creators when adpocalypse happened and everyone's income just dropped? Now imagine you're a website owner and suddenly your website isn't making any more money and needs to shutdown.
- grishka 4y agoI am a website owner. It costs me a whopping 45€/month to run. I'm paying that from my own money and I plan to keep it that way forever. Not everything that could possibly be used to earn money should be used to earn money. I enjoy respecting my users.
- int_19h 4y agoThen you shut it down. The Internet doesn't have an obligation to sustain anyone's business model indefinitely.
- grishka 4y agoOr run untargeted ads. Those are still a thing.
- grishka 4y agoI'm only talking about THIRD-PARTY cookies. First-party cookies are here to stay — that's absolutely unquestionable. But third-party cookies have very limited useful use cases. I can't really remember anything except comment widgets like Disqus. > it's not that simple to keep their usefulness while addressing their abuse It very much is. First-party cookies are mostly used for good, and third-party cookies are mostly used for evil.
- fastest963 4y agoThere still are legitimate use cases for third-party cookies. Let's say you pay for YouTube Premium. Would you be okay seeing ads in YouTube videos embedded on other sites? Should YouTube disallow embedding? That's just 1 of many examples of user expectations that break without third-party cookies.