Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding
by pcl on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @07:42AM
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… and once it’s used by multiple sites to uniquely identify you, it becomes a tracking cookie in (most of) the laws on the books.
The law judges intent as well as technology.
Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding
by PeterisP on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @07:44AM
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No, a cookie with default settings attached to https://example.com saying "previous_visitor=true" does not provide any information whatsoever to any sites other than https://example.com.
There are various techniques to place "cookies" (sometimes not technically cookies) that can be correlated by multiple websites working together, but the website has to go out of their way to proactively do that, this is not something that gets enabled by simply placing a standard non-personalized cookie.
Who are you to speak for "most people". I do object to that kind of cookie being placed without my explicit consent. It provides at least some identifying information that might allow multiple websites working together to uniquely identify you.