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Re:Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in F... by mindcrime on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @08:12PM (#19620377)
OK, fair enough, I should have specified that I meant outside of the case of obvious fraud (eg, snake-oil).

Also, FYI, I'm not the one who down-voted you. In fact, have an upvote to counter-balance that.

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Re:Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in F... by ogre_codes on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @12:38PM (#19626386)
I get your point about the potential benefits of targeted advertising, and in an ideal world it's true. Of course in that same ideal world we wouldn't have sleazy non-targeted advertising either. I just see so much abuse of tracking and targeting that the damage far outweighs the benefits.
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