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Is there any legitimate use for third-party cookies (which is all this seems to analyze)? I disabled third-party cookies years ago and I have never noticed any negative side effects at all.
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I don't think it's that simple. I believe people do care if they're getting tracked, for what reason, and for the possible repercussions. We can compare the issues between a marketing on Facebook re-targeting you and the government recording your text messages. In one scenario, your preferences are exposed and used to present you with an advertisment to buy a good. In the other scenario, you can be analyzed for wheth…
Compare these scenarios: 1 a cop is passing by your house and sees you commit a murder. 2 government finds out from your phone's GPS data + public camera face recognition that you committed a murder 3 you admit to a murder on phone with an accomplice Why is one way of collecting evidence any better than the other. If you commit a crime, you should be convicted. Just because you are able to hide certain types of evide…
People don't care. It is funny that smart people don't care about tech and ad companies violating their privacy by collecting data and profiting from it. But they have an issue with the government doing it to protect them. Perhaps has something to do with the fact that silicon valley's success is based on the advertising business model and violation of people's privacy.
Or perhaps it's because people don't trust that the government is interested in protecting them. If a private company uses the information it has on you maliciously at least you have some recourse - a competitor, or the justice system. When the powers in charge decide to use your data against you because they don't like your political stances, who is going to protect you?
The real solution should be to use encryption so that only you as a consumer holds the keys to your data. The reason the tech industry will never implement something like this is because it will kill their profit machines - not because it is not possible to implement this.
Gives me some confidence in uBlock & Privacy Badger... The first time I ran it there was 1 site tracking me (adbrain).. I adjusted my PB settings accordingly and got 0. It's a useful site for calibrating those tools! http://i.imgur.com/hdReODM.png
What's your reason for running both uBlock & Privacy Badger?
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Be careful, some sites/services don't function correctly without that set.
Such as? It's been years since I allowed third party cookies and I've never noticed any issues.
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Compare these scenarios: 1 a cop is passing by your house and sees you commit a murder. 2 government finds out from your phone's GPS data + public camera face recognition that you committed a murder 3 you admit to a murder on phone with an accomplice Why is one way of collecting evidence any better than the other. If you commit a crime, you should be convicted. Just because you are able to hide certain types of evide…
What makes scenario 2 egregious is how easy it would be to use that evidence to implicate someone for parking nearby the victim's house while the real killer took the bus. That kind of mass data collection lets you get really convenient answers from the data, and I don't trust the police to do the additional work of physically placing me at the scene if they can get a prosecutor to railroad me using my gps data.