Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

Re:Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data con... by codezero on Saturday September 04, 2021 @09:46PM (#28421026)

I agree with what you pointed out about subjectivity. I think it’s still worth discussing though to serve as a warning to others who act with their own best intentions only to have them get bitten. Without calling this out it just always leans on the malicious side which doesn’t trend with reality in my experience.

In terms of end users driving decisions ultimately, I agree. That said, this is a discussion forum so I figured it was open for discussion and assumed that folks would be deciding on their own how to react to the change.

I guess this all depends on what we think we’re having a discussion about!

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Re:Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data con... by laumars on Sunday September 05, 2021 @04:58PM (#28427701)

The problem is any such discussion is going to be entirely speculative. Sure, you can discuss what you presume the developers motives might have been but it reveals more about the opinions and personalities of the people holding the discussion than it does about the developers since all you’re doing is projecting your own story to fill in some pretty sizeable blanks.

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Re:Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data con... by codezero on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:09AM (#28466109)

But what many others in this thread have done is just as speculative, assuming malice, and to be clear, I think it could very much be the case, but I’m sharing another perspective based on a lot of experiences I’ve had where external parties assumed malice when internally it was far from it. Take it or leave it. This is the internet and I’m typing into a box.

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