Re:UK to depart from GDPR
by anoncake on Friday March 12, 2021 @11:33AM
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Do you really think those websites actually check if you "gave consent" before tracking you?
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It feels good to not agree successfully in the lack of a "I don't agree" button. I block their cookies anyway. :) I need to find better ways to mess with their fingerprinting though, or maybe throw back some bogus cookies at them with badly-formatted data instead of blocking them.
Is this something people do? Is it possible for a user to edit a cookie in a malicious way? Do servers typically trust cookies they have placed on a user's machine?
> Is it possible for a user to edit a cookie in a malicious way?
Obviously, it comes from the user's machine so it can be modified before being sent to the server. Unless you're doing something custom/fancy like signing that data you shouldn't trust that it hasn't been tampered with.