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Re:France fines Microsoft €60M for imposing advertising cookies by thaumasiotes on Thursday December 22, 2022 @03:56PM (#34098554)
Setting cookies involves you telling all your visitors that you're tracking them. How would the server-side tracking be detected?
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Re:France fines Microsoft €60M for imposing advertising cookies by jefftk on Thursday December 22, 2022 @03:57PM (#34098572)
I expect Microsoft would still disclose it in their privacy policy. Or be vulnerable to a whistleblower.
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Re:France fines Microsoft €60M for imposing advertising cookies by tracker1 on Thursday December 22, 2022 @04:00PM (#34098615)
It's not "tracking" it's just ensuring a "consistent user experience throughout our ecosystem".

/sarc

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Re:France fines Microsoft €60M for imposing advertising cookies by jefftk on Thursday December 22, 2022 @04:07PM (#34098697)
The tracking they were fined for was for ad fraud detection, not personalization.
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Re:France fines Microsoft €60M for imposing advertising cookies by janosdebugs on Thursday December 22, 2022 @04:59PM (#34099384)
Fingerprinting still requires a lot of client-side information. Sending that to the server for no good reason may prompt some questions.
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