- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
I don’t get why companies pull such shady crap to get behavior data. 99% of it is useless and never even is used to make improvements to products or processes.
Clearly it isn’t so useless, or they wouldn’t do it.
More to the point, the company using shady means to collect the data does not need to care if the data is useful, just that it’s marketable.
It’s like grifting, but also a pyramid scheme.
A lot gets used. A lot doesn’t. The technology is designed with trust in mind that it won’t be abused. It completely is. We should really be redesigning protocols to not be intrusive. A lot of information is given that is no longer needed to be functional.
They’re effectively crackheads
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Basically override the default event for an anchor tag and use js to open a new tab to a given link.
My guess would be JavaScript
Wouldn’t it be easier to have a blacklist for cookie domains?
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Noscript manages cookies? Are cookies only loaded if you enable javascript?
PiHole is obviously not a solution…
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Damn! This is good news as I use NoScript for years now.
But thats my point… Why clear them when you can just block them to begin with?