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> Technically they’re correct: the privacy offered by this new system is superior to that which is offered by the web with no tracking protection. That’s not t
by handsclean 3y ago
> Technically they’re correct: the privacy offered by this new system is superior to that which is offered by the web with no tracking protection.
That’s not true, this new system is a tracker, not tracking protection. Simply turning it off improves privacy.
- afavour 3y agoThere’s literally no point in implementing this system if you aren’t going to pair it with tracking prevention, as Google plans to do.
- handsclean 3y agoThey’re planning on turning off one tracking system they use on us and turning on another, that’s not “tracking prevention”. Every other browser just turned off the old and didn’t replace it, and users are better off for it.
- afavour 3y agoI’m aware. The OP said: > this feature increases your privacy when in reality it does the opposite My clarification is that their new tracking system does increase your privacy compared to the old. It just doesn’t increase it as much as other browsers. We’re not in disagreement about what is better for users.
- handsclean 3y agoWe’re in agreement on the relative privacy, too. My point was just to challenge this “protection” / “prevention” framing. If somebody regularly mugs you then announces they’re going to start taking half as much when they mug you, and that only in response to people increasingly fighting back, framing that as “mugging protection” or “mugging prevention” is not just inaccurate, but pushes an assumption that this person is actually helping us and that demands of no mugging at all are unreasonable.