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Re:Searching for a Future Beyond Facebook by cmrdporcupine on Friday May 04, 2018 @08:24AM (#16993986)
I'm sure there's a technical solution at the browser level -- a way to break cookie matchers. At least when I worked in retargeting, cookie matching was the secret sauce.

Preventing third party sources (images, scripts, "share buttons" etc.) from issuing or checking browser cookies might break a whole pile of useful things, but it'd make the world of retargeted ads dry up quickly.

Re:Searching for a Future Beyond Facebook by dreamfactored on Friday May 04, 2018 @02:47PM (#16997175)
The freely available non-cookie fingerprinting libraries are incredibly effective now.