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Attached: 1 image So this, from Firefox, is fucking toxic: https://mstdn.social/@Lokjo/112772496939724214 You might be aware Chrome— a browser made by an ad company— has been trying to claw back the limitations recently placed on ad networks by the death of third-party cookies, and added new features that gather and report data directly to ad networks. You'd know this because Chrome displayed a popup. If you're a Firefox user, what you probably don't know is Firefox added this feature and *has already turned it on without asking you*
    • kersplomp@programming.dev
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      4 months ago

      Yes. The problem with cookies was that they could be used to track and identify you. If this can’t do that, then what’s the issue?

      • minoscopede@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        The problem is supporting ad networks.

        Edit: /s because apparently it wasn’t obvious. Anonymous is obviously better.

      • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de
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        4 months ago

        Most data can be de-anonymized with some clever tricks. I don’t know about Mozilla but the others definitely try to keep it just anonymous enough to later be correlated with the rest of your profile.

        Edit: typos