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I wish cookies could be made completely illegal worldwide. You want to track me, use your database should I choose to create a business relationship with your s
by jebblue 11y ago
I wish cookies could be made completely illegal worldwide. You want to track me, use your database should I choose to create a business relationship with your site and login.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoSites can now use server-side cookies, where different sites even share info they glean from you. So they can auto-fill forms because you filled out a similar form on another site. Your browser is no longer complicit in 'cookie storage'. What can be done about that? Its not unreasonable for vendors to keep and share information. Its not practical to have personal control over what they're doing up there in the cloud.
- shultays 11y agoHow do sites know who is which client without cookies?
- patrickmn 11y agohttps://www.kuleuven.be/english/news/2013/several-top-websites-use-device-fingerprinting-to-secretly-track-users https://www.kuleuven.be/english/news/2013/several-top-websit...
- patrickmn 11y agoThat too is subject to the EU ePrivacy Directive, so the idea is you're supposed to be able to report someone who does this to your national ombudsman, like the ICO's office in the UK, and they'll fine the offender. The language in the ePrivacy Directive always talks about tracking terminals (devices.) It's not just about cookies, or browsers. You need the user's consent to track their device, period. (However you don't need consent for e.g. basic cookies that are necessary for a site to function, and which aren't used for tracking.)
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoI'm wondering if 'cloud cookies' are tracking the device, or tracking me. E.g. if I enter my name and address, it fills in the rest from the cloud. Maybe that wriggles through because there's no device tracking.
- patrickmn 11y agoThat doesn't really sound like tracking, though.