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How would this happen like you say? Browsers stop accepting third party cookies & scripts, block ads, disable localStorage, etc? It'd be the browser that no o
by justinph 14y ago
How would this happen like you say?
Browsers stop accepting third party cookies & scripts, block ads, disable localStorage, etc?
It'd be the browser that no one would use, because half the sites on the 'net wouldn't work.
Like many big problems, the solution is a lot more nuanced than you suggest. It involves browsers having more stringent defaults, website makers caring more (altruistically or by legislation) and consumers caring more.
- benologist 14y agoThey fight off viruses, malware, exploits, etc so I think mostly we should consider this a classification problem only from where we sit. Most of the net works too - AdBlock, NoScript and Ghostery wouldn't be amongst the most popular extensions on multiple browsers if they had many negative consequences.