• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    Disabling cross site cookie is already a thing for decades…

    Same with Do Not Track requests.

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      2 months ago

      Do Not Track has never really done anything, it just asks websites politely to not track you. There’s no legal or technical limitation here.

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        2 months ago

        I still much rather have it than not. It also lead to the spiritual successor GPC which does actually have regulatory requirements under the CCPA.

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      2 months ago

      Disabling cross site cookies and allowing them to exist while siloed within the specific sites that need them are two different things.

      Previous methods of disabling cross site cookies would often break functionality, or prevent a site from using their own analytics software that they contracted out from a third party.

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        2 months ago

        Thank you for your explanation, tbat greatly clears up my confusion.

        TBH, if a person’s concern is being tracked by, for example, Facebook; then this just lets Facebook continue tracking them without directly allowing Facebook’s anaylitics customers to track them to another site directly (but indirectly that information can still be provided). But I guess for all the people giving FB and Google those proviledges better to have this than not.