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Re:Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically by rrobukef on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:29AM (#35626144)
They do put electronic advertising screens in front that collect "anonymous" mac addresses. They also put trackers inside the shopping carts to follow you inside the store. The client-card you use during checkout records your name, address and spending habits.

They don't need to sic a minion to sniff after you. The implication of buying condoms and then visiting the hotel only requires to correlate three tables.

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Re:Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically by Symbiote on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:48AM (#35626249)
Those advertising screens aren't necessarily compliant with the GDPR.

https://techgdpr.com/blog/wifi-tracking-retail-analytics-gdp... has some background.

https://www.spring-board.info/differences-between-geo-wifi-f... is from a British company which claims to do compliant tracking in shopping centres etc.

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Re:Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically by CaptainZapp on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @09:05AM (#35627646)
> The client-card you use during checkout records your name, address and spending habits.

There's a very good reason why I don't have any such client card and will never apply for one.

The store can track your purchases down to the line item if you use one of those. I vehemently disagree with that.

Also, I pay mostly with cash.

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