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Cookies in 2024 is kinda irrelevant, more important is to prevent fingerprinting of veriest kind (CSS, fonts, GPU, screen size etc).
by vmfunction 3y ago
Cookies in 2024 is kinda irrelevant, more important is to prevent fingerprinting of veriest kind (CSS, fonts, GPU, screen size etc).
- ben_w 3y agoThe actual law is about any kind of personal data, including but not limited to fingerprinting web/app users, which can be associated with a real human. European fear of harms caused by malicious use of databases of personal data go back to actual harms caused by such databases when they were still paper-based and the first transistors had not even been demonstrated.
- noirscape 3y agoThey're also on the way out because Google is moving to turn Chrome into a massive tracking black box on it's own. There's no need to use cookie-based fingerprinting if you control ~97% of the browser market and you can just install the tracking tools directly in the software used and keep them active with maliciously crafted (dark pattern) popups.