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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by pwdisswordfishy on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:47AM (#45670933)
They can't. The website may very well do the opposite of the preference DNT signals. Meanwhile, proving in a court of law that the tracking still happens will be hard.

Services should be denied the capacity to track and fingerprint, not just told about a preference against it.

DNT will always be an "evil bit", regardless of any law behind it.

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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by arbol on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:05PM (#45675739)
How do you deny the capacity to fingerprint? That's basically disabling JavaScript.
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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by artyom on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:41PM (#45676082)
Essentially the same way uBlock Origin worked. A global list of offenders to block so that Javascript won't be loaded at all.

Asking browsers to implement uBlock Origin natively tho...

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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by avmich on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:58PM (#45676216)
Adding a different web page-resident language?
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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by Jensson on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @10:45PM (#45677641)
> They can't. The website may very well do the opposite of the preference DNT signals. Meanwhile, proving in a court of law that the tracking still happens will be hard.

Its not hard when it comes to any website of note, large companies can't easily hide what their computers are doing really, if they have code that tracks people it is gonna be found.

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