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Re:Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for ... by klibertp on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:04PM (#18122889)
> I use incognito sessions.

If you think these do anything at all to prevent tracking, you're unfortunately sadly mistaken :(

> a bit of information about myself

"A bit"? That's... well, the only thing I can say is that you indeed seem not to care about this.

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Re:Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for ... by malvosenior on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:16PM (#18123002)
> If you think these do anything at all to prevent tracking, you're unfortunately sadly mistaken :(

It definitely stops them from identifying me as logged into Facebook, Twitter... via social share buttons.

> "A bit"? That's... well, the only thing I can say is that you indeed seem not to care about this.

Correct, and I wonder what harm people who complain about this have actually ever come to?

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