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Do Not Track is a silly nuance in Germany because the IP address is fully identifying there and the ISP contract owner takes full responsibility for anything ha

Do Not Track is a silly nuance in Germany because the IP address is fully identifying there and the ISP contract owner takes full responsibility for anything happening behind it. Nothing to be excited about legal trolls burning public money on fighting LinkedIn in courts. XING is not going to happen, stop trying. Every "privacy" fart coming out of Germany is their predatory media publishers and copyright trolls unable to accept that internet exists.

snordgren 3y ago
The good news is that over 10 million largely tech illiterate Germans over the age of 55 will retire in the next decade. Not only will the Germany of the 2030s be less technophobic, it will be significantly less relevant in the EU and on the global stage. And by and large, Europeans won’t miss their stewardship.
throwaway447 3y ago
Trust me, I could not care less about the German boneheads. But you are right, as always, the judge has little understanding how tracking works. I have a heavily modified web surfing browser that offers me some amount of privacy and ad free experience. Pay walls I circumvent with "Pass paywalls clean" or with a bookmarklet that looks up the site on an archive. In the end, it makes it harder for an average website to track me but not impossible. Dont believe me? Try this website: https://www.amiunique.org/fingerprint https://www.amiunique.org/fingerprint By the way, ghostery, the ad blocking software, is (was?) owned by a German media company. Hubert Burda Media. You can't make this stuff up. And no, you should not use it.
rsynnott 3y ago
> Do Not Track is a silly nuance in Germany because the IP address is fully identifying there I flatly do not believe that CGNAT is not used in Germany. Do you have a reference for this? > the ISP contract owner takes full responsibility for anything happening behind it What's that got to do with anything? The issue here is the bad behaviour of the website, not the client.
- expertentipp 3y ago
  Of course I have no source or reference. My life is too short and beautiful to litigate about or with German media publishers and copyright trolls.

snordgren 3y ago

The good news is that over 10 million largely tech illiterate Germans over the age of 55 will retire in the next decade. Not only will the Germany of the 2030s be less technophobic, it will be significantly less relevant in the EU and on the global stage. And by and large, Europeans won’t miss their stewardship.

throwaway447 3y ago

Trust me, I could not care less about the German boneheads. But you are right, as always, the judge has little understanding how tracking works. I have a heavily modified web surfing browser that offers me some amount of privacy and ad free experience. Pay walls I circumvent with "Pass paywalls clean" or with a bookmarklet that looks up the site on an archive. In the end, it makes it harder for an average website to track me but not impossible. Dont believe me? Try this website: https://www.amiunique.org/fingerprint https://www.amiunique.org/fingerprint By the way, ghostery, the ad blocking software, is (was?) owned by a German media company. Hubert Burda Media. You can't make this stuff up. And no, you should not use it.

rsynnott 3y ago

> Do Not Track is a silly nuance in Germany because the IP address is fully identifying there I flatly do not believe that CGNAT is not used in Germany. Do you have a reference for this? > the ISP contract owner takes full responsibility for anything happening behind it What's that got to do with anything? The issue here is the bad behaviour of the website, not the client.

expertentipp 3y ago
Of course I have no source or reference. My life is too short and beautiful to litigate about or with German media publishers and copyright trolls.