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> I used per-account email [addresses] with alias services I do too (anything@mysubdomain.example.com), but but online services collude with data brokers to sh
by scoot 11mo ago
> I used per-account email [addresses] with alias services
I do too (anything@mysubdomain.example.com), but but online services collude with data brokers to share so much information [0] that I don't doubt that many of these "separate" profiles have been aggregated.
Unfortunately the services that supposedly offer to have your personal data removed from data brokers don't seem to support aliasing, so no straightforward way to either find out or have the data removed.
[0] Just look at the scary list of third-party cookies you can't opt out of on Coursera [1], for example:
Match and combine data from other data sources
419 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Identify devices based on information transmitted automatically
546 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Link different devices
358 partners can use this feature
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Deliver and present advertising and content
582 partners can use this special purpose
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[1] https://www.coursera.org/about/cookies-manage https://www.coursera.org/about/cookies-manage
- IanCal 11mo ago> [0] Just look at the scary list of third-party cookies you can't opt out of on Coursera [1], I can opt out of all of them. The only third party cookie I can't is a cloudfront one for crsf.
- scoot 11mo agoThey've changed their cookie consent provider (or rolled their own) since my comment. Probably just a happy coincidence, but well done Coursera in any case for fixing a pretty egregious breach of regulations. The other good news in the meantime is that the EU (who originally mandated cookie consent) has finally woken up to the ridiculousness of leaving it up to the site, and will require browsers to enforce it instead.