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Re:Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web bro... by salawat on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @04:35PM (#44185204)
This is why things involving cookies for permission to do things were really poison pills. As long as there is a cookie to be tracked, any at all, you have the data exfil/tracking problem. Only thing that changes is where the aggregation happens.
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Re:Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web bro... by gnud on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @05:13PM (#44241506)
Luckily, GDPR isn't about cookies, it's about processing personal information. Doesn't matter if you use cookies, localstorage, or carrier pigeon.

The older EU 'cookie directive' only mentions cookies as an example of storage in a footnote. The regulative is actually about any storage on the users computer.

Marketers would like you to believe that the stupid banners are about cookies. They're not - they're about processing your personal information.

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