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IMO the fact that any discerning user can easily browse the web without them by using Safari or otherwise disabling 3PC’s makes them pretty benign. I think the
by kevinventullo 2y ago
IMO the fact that any discerning user can easily browse the web without them by using Safari or otherwise disabling 3PC’s makes them pretty benign. I think the intense focus on them is a distraction from the much, much, worse instances of privacy violations being carried out by e.g. ISP’s selling PII-level location data to bounty hunters.
- Terr_ 2y agoAlso browser fingerprinting, as a way to prevent people from resetting things by clearing cookies and/or maintaining separate profiles. Third-party cookies, as a naive identifier on their own, are comparatively straightforward and controllable. It's all the other tricks around them that make it worrisome.