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Re:EU privacy agency urges more safeguards to curb U.S. tech... by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Friday February 12, 2021 @02:45PM (#26117744)
Just disable Javascript. If people did this en masse, even for one day, the adtech companies would start to panic. Castles made of sand.
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Re:EU privacy agency urges more safeguards to curb U.S. tech... by qertoip on Friday February 12, 2021 @03:00PM (#26117904)
That would help but tracking would still be possible through HTTP layer like resource caching and other headers.
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Re:EU privacy agency urges more safeguards to curb U.S. tech... by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Friday February 12, 2021 @03:03PM (#26117936)
I control the HTTP layer with a forward proxy. Works well.
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