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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by tclancy on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @07:42PM (#25922849)
Not predicting what will happen thirty years hence is naive? The web was all shiny goodness and going to be a panacea for anything you could name back in the late 90s. The fact that it did not come to pass isn’t naïveté so much as a disappointing repeat of what our current economic systems of reward drive companies to do.
Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by frabcus on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:42PM (#25923633)
The general pattern was predictable - I was involved in making an early ad blocker in 1996. Adbusters magazine was a thing then.

Technically, the detail of super-cookies is inventive and surprising. The general trend for how capitalism inevitably both uses and abuses advertising was predictable.