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Re:EU privacy agency urges more safeguards to curb U.S. tech... by emteycz on Friday February 12, 2021 @11:55AM (#26115658)
The technical solution wasn't even tried, I will agree with you after that fails. Also for example subsidy for Firefox and other independent browsers (of Google/MS/...) could be tried. Law should be the last resort.
Re:EU privacy agency urges more safeguards to curb U.S. tech... by DCKing on Friday February 12, 2021 @12:19PM (#26115984)
I'm curious what the technical solution is you're proposing. I was considering OP's context of a technical solution that's "clearing your cookies regularly". Surely that's both not sufficient (not by a long shot) and being tried at some scale [1]? So probably you mean something else, but I'm not sure what.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_browsing

Re:EU privacy agency urges more safeguards to curb U.S. tech... by emteycz on Friday February 12, 2021 @02:36PM (#26117633)
First step would be making private browsing the default. Second step would be making strong, capable adblockers built-in. Third step would be something like Firefox containers, one for each domain. Fourth step could be analyzing network traffic for potentially fingerprinting information and blocking it. I am sure there is much more to think of.