HTTPS Everywhere (Firefox) is blocking this. I get the "third party cookies blocked" message. When I disabled HTTPS Everywhere, it worked.
Same for Chrome.
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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.
I've had problems viewing "private" Vimeo videos with 3rd party cookies blocked
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If you're going to the trouble of running Privacy Badger and uBlock, I would have to recommend going the further step and getting Self-Destructing Cookies.
Is there a comparable plugin for Chrome? I currently have Tab Cookies, but it doesn't seem to clear local storage.
If you're concerned about tracking, don't use a browser that was created by a tracking company. :)
Google doesn't believe in privacy and they don't want you to be able to block tracking. Just look at the Android permissions system for an example.
Also, Firefox is generally faster than Chrome from a user's perspective, because Chrome is optimized to send you to the Google Search results pages where you're supposed to click cleverly-disguised ads on your way to your destination. In contrast, Firefox is designed to send you directly to where you want to go. Try it for a while to see what I mean.
(I hope that someone will write a script to compare the amount of time wasted by Chrome's pushing people to Google search results vs. the fast search experience on Firefox where ctrl-l gets you fast, accurate suggestions and ctrl-k gets you search suggestions.)
Also, Firefox for Android is the only mobile browser that lets you use add-ons, and adblockers can save over 70% of bandwidth. Self-destructing cookies works on the mobile version too.
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#74HTTPS Everywhere (Firefox) is blocking this. I get the "third party cookies blocked" message. When I disabled HTTPS Everywhere, it worked.
Not sure about Firefox, but in Chrome you can just disable the About Ads (partial) rule:
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're going to the trouble of running Privacy Badger and uBlock, I would have to recommend going the further step and getting Self-Destructing Cookies.
Is there a comparable plugin for Chrome? I currently have Tab Cookies, but it doesn't seem to clear local storage.
Don't know I'm afraid. I wish someone would build something with a better UI for iOS. At the moment I use 1Blocker with an explicit whitelist and it's a PITA
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#76Is 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.
I thought I disabled ads in Safari by selecting, under cookies and website data, "allow from current website only". But new cookies from domains I've never visited keep spawning. What am I doing wrong?
It's because unbeknownst to you, the sites you visit are requesting javascript or a tracking pixel from these other domains.
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#77People 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.
For me, it has a lot to do with the fact that I have more to fear from the government collecting a lot of information about me than I do from having ad companies collecting information about me.
I'm the same. I think a big reason is trust as you mention. The other is consequence, and significance of consequence.
If a company abuses a peoples collected data they are likely just spamming them or something similar to sell me some product, and they can expect repercussions. If a government is abusing data there is likely nefarious activities happening challenging a countries democracy and little consequence to be easily had. Very different end results and motivations.
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If you're going to the trouble of running Privacy Badger and uBlock, I would have to recommend going the further step and getting Self-Destructing Cookies.
Is there a comparable plugin for Chrome? I currently have Tab Cookies, but it doesn't seem to clear local storage.
I wrote Vanilla Cookie Manager years ago to clear cookies. I've always wanted to clear local storage as well but they have left me hanging since 2011:
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#79Kind of a misleading headline. Look through the list of third-party cookies in your browser if you want to see who is tracking you. This is a list of ad companies who have agreed to offer an option not to track you.
And how do I know that they actually don't?
They have to abide to this policy otherwise they probably get kicked out of the advertising organisations.
http://www.aboutads.info/enforcement - You can report any misbehaviour here.
This does not mean that you will not see ads from them it means that they should delete all profiling information that they have about you and serve you just shitty regular ads.
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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.
How is that any different to the neighbor seeing you park your car in that street and not seeing the actual killer. Is there a difference in whether this evidence got collected by a person or a camera? What you do with this(and all other collected evidence) comes later. Eq - what if the government hires millions of police and place them on every intersection - that is acceptable, but having a camera on every intersec…
The issue is the opposite. It's a problem this data is collected for innocent people.
It is indeed very similar to the government hiring millions of police and placing them everywhere (but even worse!). This effects society negatively and restricts freedom of expression due to the very looming presence of law enforcement everywhere.