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Re:The CNAME of the Game: Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based ... by jrochkind1 on Friday March 05, 2021 @10:15PM (#26364876)
OK, so here's the basic issue.

What did banning third-party cookies actually stop then? Nothing?

So whatever they were able to do before banning third-party cookies, why did banning third-party cookies matter at all?

The whole point of the CNAME as described is to get around third-party cookie bans. If getting around the third-party cookie ban doesn't actually help -- that seems to suggest the third-party cookie ban in the first place didn't actually do anything, if getting around it doesn't give you anything? no?

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Re:The CNAME of the Game: Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based ... by thrwwy0304 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @09:37AM (#26376129)
It stopped syncing identities with the first-class web APIs, and forced trackers to use browser fingerprinting.

That _does_ help. It adds noise to things and helps us shift our focus to stopping fingerprinting.

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