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Re:No Cookie for You by d0gbread on Thursday December 17, 2020 @04:30PM (#25460705)
I think you mean "you don't need cookie banners if you have your own identifier" which they certainly do and affords them the luxury of this blog post.
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Re:No Cookie for You by mrtksn on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:28AM (#25465368)
That's the idea. You visit GitHub and github knows about it, not Facebook, not your local advertisement agency, not the data brokers. Also, these identifiers are not forged in the fire of Mordor, you can have your identifier too.
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Re:No Cookie for You by kzrdude on Thursday December 17, 2020 @06:20PM (#25461817)
And add to that, they have paying customers.
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