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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by cm2187 on Monday August 17, 2015 @07:46AM (#10072405)
Yes. You could still serve ads from third party domains but these ads wouldn't be able to run javascript. This would be a protection in term of security and privacy. With no cookies or javascript I do not see how a tracking company could track users accross websites. And unless I miss something it would be a more constructive alternative to ad blockers.

[edit] in fact an alternative to blocking third party cookies is to restrict third party cookies to the domain-visited/third-party-domain, such that third parties can still use cookies to track you on the domain visited but that cookie can't track you accross websites.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by MatthewMcDonald on Monday August 17, 2015 @08:32AM (#10072539)
It's not nearly as easy without cookies and javascript, but it's worth mentioning that browser fingerprinting[0] can track users across websites.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by cm2187 on Monday August 17, 2015 @09:56AM (#10072956)
This thing relies heavily on javascript, flash and silverlight. Both flash and silverlight require javascript. So unless I missed something, without scripts the only thing device fingerprinting can harvest is pretty much the user agent, which is pretty much useless for fingerprinting.
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