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Re:Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time by cortesoft on Friday January 11, 2019 @05:46PM (#18887927)
How is that not freedom? Each site owner has the freedom to use google analytics or not, no one forces them to. And each user has the ability to block requests to google analytics if they want, or avoid sites that use it.
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Re:Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time by ken on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:12PM (#18888486)
How am I supposed to know that any particular domain is used for analytics, versus core functionality? How am I supposed to know what scripts a webpage loads, before viewing it?

> "But look, you found the notice, didn't you?" "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'"

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Re:Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time by cortesoft on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:39PM (#18888622)
I am curious to how this could be solved. I mean, i guess you could have your browser ask before every request generated for a page, but that seems very cumbersome.
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Re:Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time by kkarakk on Saturday January 12, 2019 @03:17AM (#18890281)
apps do it on first install, why shouldn't browsers do it on a website's first launch?
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Re:Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time by zbentley on Saturday January 12, 2019 @04:22AM (#18890439)
> why shouldn't browsers do it on a website's first launch?

Because users would riot, and would use browsers or plugins that suppressed these notifications.

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Re:Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time by IggleSniggle on Saturday January 12, 2019 @01:06PM (#18892414)
I would love it, personally! And websites would riot, and then reduce the number of permissions they requested, just like apps do/did.
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Re:Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time by dcbadacd on Saturday January 12, 2019 @08:16PM (#18894378)
It would be just like the cookie notices are, now that the data misuse is displayed with a banner, people rage and hate those. Websites haven't really removed third party/non-essential cookies.
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