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I still smile sometimes at the pop-ups. I mean, you can try and store a cookie. I'm still gonna automatically delete it in a few minutes. This never needed a
by retrac 4y ago
I still smile sometimes at the pop-ups. I mean, you can try and store a cookie. I'm still gonna automatically delete it in a few minutes.
This never needed a legal solution in this form. Browsers should just not accept cookies, unless the user explicitly wants something stored on their device. That might have been better to legislate. Software on a user's device should not store or enable tracking by remote services, without disclaimer.
- PeterisP 4y agoRejection is required to ensure that for functionally required cookies (e.g. session cookies when logged in) you refuse permission to use them for any other purpose, and that you refuse permission to use any of the many non-cookie tracking methods.
- sonium 4y agoAFAIK it’s not actually about cookies but a website tracking you by any technical means. Could be your IP or user agent as well
- eternityforest 4y agoThat would also be terrible to legislate. Browsers for privacy conscious people should offer it as an option, it's a non-issue for everyone else. If the government wants to get involved they can make public service announcements and try to convince people to care.
- anonymous_sorry 4y agoWith a purely client-side solution how do you stop a company using the same identifying token for basic session management and invasive tracking/data gathering?
- ZiiS 4y agoTracking a single session doesn't really worry me and I seriously doubt any law will stop it. What we want to do is prevent them correlating two sessions. With FF in full defensive mode. No canvas, restricted JS, deleted cookies I can at least make it hard for them.
- andrepd 4y agoExactly. Cookie autodelete (remove cookies when all tabs from a domain are closed) + I don't care about cookies (remove the popups).
- DelightOne 4y agoBut.. what if it asks to allow tracking based on your internet provider? Then the provider delivers who you are automatically instead of anything you control.
- circuit10 4y agoAs far as I know the law only applies to tracking cookies, I’m not sure if the browser can distinguish those from normal ones so it has be done via the law. Asking for consent for any kind of cookie whatsoever would be a bit much
- musicale 4y agoTracking probably won't go away if you remove client side cookies - it will just move server side (think a new server-side google analytics) and to more aggressive client fingerprinting. Is that the best outcome?
- taftster 4y agoI mean, I am pretty sure (have seen first hand) that this already happens regardless of whether client cookies are enabled. There's so many other (good?) ways to track users beyond just a cookie.
- JohnFen 4y ago> Browsers should just not accept cookies Most (all?) browsers I've ever seen have a setting that makes them reject all cookies.
- Symbiote 4y agoBrowsers explicitly asked permission to allow a cookie back in the 1990s. I'd guess around 1996-7 that changed to automatically accepting them.