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If you disable Cookies and Javascript you will stop probably 90% or more of tracking. How much tracking is done without using Cookies and without Javascript?
by commonersense 14y ago
If you disable Cookies and Javascript you will stop probably 90% or more of tracking. How much tracking is done without using Cookies and without Javascript? KISSMetrics? What else?
- othermaciej 14y agoThere's lots of ways to track you. Here's a sampling: <http://samy.pl/evercookie/> http://samy.pl/evercookie/> Turning off cookies and JavaScript will stop many, but not all. It also makes many popular websites nearly unusable. Browsing with JS and cookies off, and selectively turning them on, is an option that is only really practical for experts.
- Teapot 14y agoWithout JS and Cookies the web is too crippled. It's not an option for most people. DNT tries to fix this on a more legal level than technical.
- commonersense 14y agoCookies and JS were workarounds introduced by Netscape. They helped us jump start e-commerce. There are certain essential tasks one just cannot do on the web without enabling JS and Cookies. Namely, e-commerce and banking (stateful transactions). This makes a compelling case for turning on Javascript and Cookies. Unfortunately, users are frequently advised to turn on JS and Cookies for other, non-essential purposes that could be accomplished without them. And we cannot say with a straight face that every use of JS and Cookies today is "essential". These Netscape workarounds have, alas, been greatly abused to the detriment of users. It's unfortunate we have to have something like DNT. It is the cost of the abusive use of JS and Cookies.