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Google is Exploring an Alternative to Cookies for Ad Tracking

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Re: Google is Exploring an Alternative to Cookies for Ad Tracking

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Post by eps »

I bet that this is a preventive PR diversion for something else.

Google is anything but stupid. Given current post-Snowden climate they surely realize that something as obnoxiuos as built-in browser tracking is going to raise a storm of discontent. But they have decided to realize this information anyway. So they let this stew a little and suggest some alternative, probably as nasty, but it will look mild in comparison, and everyone will be happy. It's your good old anchoring - start with something completely obnoxious so that the thing that you actually want will look benign against it.

Re: Google is Exploring an Alternative to Cookies for Ad Tracking

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Post by duvet »

fear91 wrote: post #3

I've used chrome because it was faster than Firefox ( and didn't crash so often ). I've switched to Firefox a few weeks ago and couldn't be happier. It seems that all the stability issues were resolved. I urge everyone to do the same.

I did the same a few months ago. I hesitated to move because I was put off by Firefox's design but I found UX Nightly[1]. A few bugs here and there because it is a nightly build but overall smooth.

[1] https://people.mozilla.org/~jwein/ux-nightly/

Re: Google is Exploring an Alternative to Cookies for Ad Tracking

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Post by Revisor »

anxiousest wrote: post #11

I don't get the alarmist tone of that piece: it's very preliminary, they are consulting with interested parties, building an opt out mechanism. Oh and Apple already deployed an identical ad id a while ago.

Just because someone else is already doing it doesn't make it right.

Re: Google is Exploring an Alternative to Cookies for Ad Tracking

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Post by throwaway9101 »

fear91 wrote: post #3

I've used chrome because it was faster than Firefox ( and didn't crash so often ). I've switched to Firefox a few weeks ago and couldn't be happier. It seems that all the stability issues were resolved. I urge everyone to do the same.

Likewise. I've since been pretty disappointed in Firefox's networking backend. Something in DNS resolution or page-fetching occasionally goes out to lunch and then ... no more loading webpages. I'm on 24.0. I should probably make some effort to actually track this down, but I don't even know where to begin.

Edit: doh! Maybe just network.dns.disableIPv6=true solved it...

Re: Google is Exploring an Alternative to Cookies for Ad Tracking

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Post by alecsmart1 »

duvet wrote: post #16
fear91 wrote: post #3

I've used chrome because it was faster than Firefox ( and didn't crash so often ). I've switched to Firefox a few weeks ago and couldn't be happier. It seems that all the stability issues were resolved. I urge everyone to do the same.

I did the same a few months ago. I hesitated to move because I was put off by Firefox's design but I found UX Nightly[1]. A few bugs here and there because it is a nightly build but overall smooth. [1] https://people.mozilla.org/~jwein/ux-nightly/

You can download from: http://nightly.mozilla.org

Re: Google is Exploring an Alternative to Cookies for Ad Tracking

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Post by oellegaard »

fear91 wrote: post #3

I've used chrome because it was faster than Firefox ( and didn't crash so often ). I've switched to Firefox a few weeks ago and couldn't be happier. It seems that all the stability issues were resolved. I urge everyone to do the same.

I just switched today. After installing the omnibar extension and removing the ugly bar in the bottom, if feels just as comfortable as Chrome.
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