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My "serious" browser I use only for these "10" sites where I need state (authentication or preferences).
If I see a cookie banner on a website, I simply reopen it in an incognito window/tab and click whatever it wants. After I'm done reading I just close the website again.
This is a good time to remind people that these prompts not only concern cookies (or even all cookies), but any form of non-essential visitor tracking. Some tracking methods will more effectively be able to track you across the boundaries of your "incognito" sessions. For example, the modern browser has a huge API surface that makes accurate finger printing using tuples of individually only moderately narrowing infor…
>those in charge of the cookie banners really believe that they protect the interests of the user No, they're asking for consent to track because the EU demanded it. The easiest way to avoid having a banner on your site is to... just not have an analytics package on your site. They're aggressive because they don't want their data spigot turned off - hence the work-to-rule nonsense. You should not infer any benevolenc…
> No, they're asking for consent to track because the EU demanded it. Personally, I think that despite seemingly good intentions, this common practice is counterintuitively harming user-privacy and security, especially on mobile where the banners take up a large chunk of the screen. Many normal people get something like "banner-blindness": they are so used to seeing banners requesting confirmation when they visit a w…
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This is a good time to remind people that these prompts not only concern cookies (or even all cookies), but any form of non-essential visitor tracking. Some tracking methods will more effectively be able to track you across the boundaries of your "incognito" sessions. For example, the modern browser has a huge API surface that makes accurate finger printing using tuples of individually only moderately narrowing infor…
I use separate and fresh isolated firefox (running within podman container) to make fingerprinting a bit more difficult, it's still fingerprintable and probably this new fingerprint can be easily associated with the other but I like to imagine I make it more difficult to track me. Every little helps :)
I prefer to not have the trackers, but sometimes I'm just impatient to get on with things.
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The cookie banners are actually illegal, and, eventually, they might go away when the law catches up with them. You've fallen for advertiser FUD.
Note that those cookie banners are required, and ever-present, in the EU since 2011 or so already (long before GDPR), so that's over a decade, what do you mean by "might go away when law catches up with them"? I'd be happy if they would go away by the way, it just seems very optimistic! > The cookie banners are actually illegal IANAL but the 2011 cookie law required to notify users about cookies, and banners / popups…
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I use separate and fresh isolated firefox (running within podman container) to make fingerprinting a bit more difficult, it's still fingerprintable and probably this new fingerprint can be easily associated with the other but I like to imagine I make it more difficult to track me. Every little helps :)
Test it here: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ its amazing how unique your surfing is :)
I wonder if the answer to the problem could be to let those companies to track whatever they want if only all they get is exactly the same fingerprint from every user.