Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding
by throwaway447 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:29AM
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Trust me, I could not care less about the German boneheads. But you are right, as always, the judge has little understanding how tracking works.
I have a heavily modified web surfing browser that offers me some amount of privacy and ad free experience. Pay walls I circumvent with "Pass paywalls clean" or with a bookmarklet that looks up the site on an archive.
In the end, it makes it harder for an average website to track me but not impossible. Dont believe me? Try this website:
By the way, ghostery, the ad blocking software, is (was?) owned by a German media company. Hubert Burda Media. You can't make this stuff up. And no, you should not use it.
I have a heavily modified web surfing browser that offers me some amount of privacy and ad free experience. Pay walls I circumvent with "Pass paywalls clean" or with a bookmarklet that looks up the site on an archive.
In the end, it makes it harder for an average website to track me but not impossible. Dont believe me? Try this website:
https://www.amiunique.org/fingerprint
By the way, ghostery, the ad blocking software, is (was?) owned by a German media company. Hubert Burda Media. You can't make this stuff up. And no, you should not use it.