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I’m not saying we should stop caring about online privacy, but the extent to which we fight fingerprinting while not actually solving the problem has made the w
by dcow 1y ago
I’m not saying we should stop caring about online privacy, but the extent to which we fight fingerprinting while not actually solving the problem has made the web worse. It’s kinda like the argument for gun control: the unsavory folk will still fingerprint your browsing while the well-mannered sites suffer from lack of features due to aversion to any persistent handle on the users they might provide, like strong crypto because uh-oh a pub key would give your a “super-cookie” so we can’t have that.
- ethbr1 1y agoSites need to realize that offering a public presentation means they're at the whim of user-agents. Most of the bullshit over the past couple decades has been them trying to pull control back to server-side.
- dcow 1y agoThat’s somewhat different from user-agents refusing to implement useful features because they might have privacy implications.
- coldtea 1y ago>while the well-mannered sites suffer from lack of features due to aversion to any persistent handle on the users they might provide Yeah, hard pass.