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troupo 2 days ago

Those obnoxious "cookie" dialogs? Yes, they cover fingerprinting as well. E.g. some innocent company wants to keep your precise geolocation data for 12 years: https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1817122117093056541

Cookie banners were never about cookies or privacy. The industry designed them with some very explicit goals in mind: to force users to opt-in to pervasive tracking, and to blame "how unusable web has become" on GDPR

dmix 2 days ago | parent [-]

Cookie banners were a result of an EU ePrivacy "cookie law" from 2002, 16yrs prior to GDPR and before fingerprinting.

troupo 2 days ago | parent [-]

The current breed of cookie banners is the industry's response to GDPR