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I am unsure as to what purpose the game aspect serves, if you're installing this is a browser extension couldn't you just give the service access to all your co
by huntedsnark 13y ago
I am unsure as to what purpose the game aspect serves, if you're installing this is a browser extension couldn't you just give the service access to all your cookies all at once rather than having to 'mine' them? What am I missing?
- Yaa101 13y agoThat it will drown the readers of those cookies, the advertisers, into a sea of fake data, forever fauling up their ability to know who is who.
- PavlovsCat 13y agoYes, but why require users to play a game for that, why not skip that part and just mess with the cookies?
- rogerbinns 13y agoBecause any decent implementation doesn't trust client cookies. Typically the server signs them so the only messing that can be done on the client side is to delete/not send them.
- Kiro 13y agoStill doesn't explain why you need a game. You add your cookies to a pool which randomly exchanges them between users. No game needed.
- rogerbinns 13y agoYou don't "need" a game. The point of the game is fun while screwing with people trying to profile you, but poisoning their data instead. There is a precedent with barcode games of collecting things http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_barcode_games http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_barcode_games Randomly exchanging cookies with other users (assuming they are even structured that way) is a considerably larger coding challenge than just examining cookies and giving an arbitrary score.
- Yaa101 13y agoI dunno, I haven't made this up, I just have a wild imagination... Besides, I play the hosts game with advertisers.