Re:Every Major Advertising Group Is Blasting Apple for Block...
by MagerValp on Friday September 15, 2017 @05:28AM
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While that sounds user friendly and genuinely useful, to me it's acceptable collateral damage in order to stop the rampant abuse by ad networks. As a user I'm also not sure it's a huge loss, since at least the browsers I use can auto-fill addresses and credit cards.
Unfortunately, because most people don't visit us in a first-party context, we are classified as a tracker, so we can't read our cookie anymore. The result being that our customers have a worse experience. If they want to get prefilled, they'll now have to go through this weird redirect song and dance so that we can interact with them in a first-party context.
So yeah, while I'm generally for enhanced privacy, I think this specific implementation is harmful. I think that all it achieves is that it consolidates the ability to track users to a small number of giants that you routinely interact with in a first-party context on a daily basis (Facebook, Google, etc).