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Re:Show HN: Ninja Cookie – Get rid of cookie popups/warnings... by recursive on Monday November 02, 2020 @08:14PM (#24975343)
There's no need to notify the server that your user-agent is opting out of cookies. Cookies only work because your user agent remembers them. You can opt out of cookies today by turning off cookies in your user agent. As a bonus, this even works for shady servers that don't respect earnest requests.
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Re:Show HN: Ninja Cookie – Get rid of cookie popups/warnings... by Semaphor on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:41PM (#24975830)
All the tracking is far more involved than cookies though.
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Re:Show HN: Ninja Cookie – Get rid of cookie popups/warnings... by deepstack on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @05:58AM (#24978429)
Canvas GPU finger print, network analysis, you get tracked one way or another. Surf web with lynx or lynx2 only!
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Re:Show HN: Ninja Cookie – Get rid of cookie popups/warnings... by recursive on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @12:07PM (#24981513)
Yes. The comment I referred to specifically referred to cookies. Also, if you're being tracked by canvas fingerprinting and font enumeration, I doubt asking nicely will have any effect.
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