Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
by kmlx on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:33AM
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how does "TechCrunch" "~300 tracking, data collection and ad companies" impact you?
i'm asking because my government knows everything about me: my private and public IPs, what sites I visit, my comments on those sites, how old I am, how often I go downtown etc etc etc
Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
by dmitriid on Thursday March 14, 2019 @09:12AM
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Simply put: when we learn that NSA secretly spies on everyone, it's a huge scandal that calls government practices into question. When it's ~300 tracking companies per website, it's "how does this impact you"? ;)
Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
by kmlx on Thursday March 14, 2019 @10:00AM
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the US government can literally take your life, imprison you, etc.
techcrunch just wants to sell you stuff.
there’s really no comparison.
Have you been asleep for the past decade? Pervasive tracking and spying on consumers has been the topic of discussion even long before that.
EU countries have had data protection laws since late 90s, and the web companies have taken a collective dump on them. So now the EU has created a single law that is quite sensible (if not without flaws) which says: you can only collect the data you absolutely require to work. If you collect other data and especially if you send to third parties, you must ask the person using your site if that's ok.
Oh my, did web company do to deserve this? Oh, I don't know. Open TechCrunch and opt out of ~300 tracking, data collection and ad companies, and tell me what they have done.