Re:SpaceX alums are branching out and shaping the startup ec...
by dmix on Saturday April 01, 2023 @11:32PM
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You apparently missed the entire point. My point wasn't that one browser would/should do it, it was whether this whole moral outrage at companies using it could ever generate a plausible scenario where we as a community decided to not allow it and actually enforced it (aka why I said Firefox "could at least make a stink about it"... which they haven't nor has any serious tech privacy group called to block cookies wholesale).
If we are going to allow such a system then there will be natural consequences. These cookie prompts are a fools gold security theatre solution that has done nothing to improve privacy. Yet it has geneatred a mountain of UX annoyances since every single one is designed different.
Likewise blaming companies for using a limited set of cookies (see: not supercookies) is silly. There's a million legit usecases and the alternative of banning cookies is not a real solution. Stopping fingerprinting is a whole other issue.
If we are going to allow such a system then there will be natural consequences. These cookie prompts are a fools gold security theatre solution that has done nothing to improve privacy. Yet it has geneatred a mountain of UX annoyances since every single one is designed different.
Likewise blaming companies for using a limited set of cookies (see: not supercookies) is silly. There's a million legit usecases and the alternative of banning cookies is not a real solution. Stopping fingerprinting is a whole other issue.
Suggesting otherwise re: cookies is disingenuous.