Re:The future of web software is HTML over WebSockets
by mbreese on Friday February 26, 2021 @09:27AM
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> This is a red herring. ... that's a legal issue with the requirement to notify users they are being tracked
It’s not a red herring. And it’s not the website warnings that are the issue, it’s the tracking that they have to notify you about. If we didn’t have to allow cookies for basic interactions with websites (like a session cookie), then we wouldn’t need to allow tracking cookies at all. However, because we need to allow session cookies, other sites can then track us.
With a persistent connection/session, this wouldn’t be necessary.
But clearly, there are many other ways to tackle this problem. And the persistent socket connection also has issues. But after thinking about this, I think the company behind the current dominant browser may be a little conflicted about solving this issue. I’m hopeful about Firefox’s new approach.
It’s not a red herring. And it’s not the website warnings that are the issue, it’s the tracking that they have to notify you about. If we didn’t have to allow cookies for basic interactions with websites (like a session cookie), then we wouldn’t need to allow tracking cookies at all. However, because we need to allow session cookies, other sites can then track us.
With a persistent connection/session, this wouldn’t be necessary.
But clearly, there are many other ways to tackle this problem. And the persistent socket connection also has issues. But after thinking about this, I think the company behind the current dominant browser may be a little conflicted about solving this issue. I’m hopeful about Firefox’s new approach.