So this means that the internet could have always worked fine without invasive cookies and everything they told us about it being impossible was just a lie.
Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
strawberry@kbin.run 8 months ago
The Federated Learning of Cohorts and now the Topics API are part of a plan to pitch an "alternative" tracking platform, and Google argues that there has to be a tracking alternative—you can't just not be spied on.
lmao what the fuck kind of dystopia are we living in
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 8 months ago
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Cookies serve important purposes for doing things like keeping you signed in as you navigate through multiple pages on a site.
The issue is that most parts of the internet were developed by people more interested in all the cool stuff you could do with it, and not at all concerned about the potential misuse by large multi billion dollar corporations.
squid_slime@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’d suggest a password manager. Its not the prettiest solution but its worth it.
jaybone@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Cookies are a part of the http protocol and the server side design of the websites themselves. You can’t just replace them with a password manager on your individual client.
poplargrove@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You defend cookies in general. But the person youre replying to might have meant third-party cookies by “invasive cookies” ?
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Googles utopia is our humanity’s dystopia.
zurohki@aussie.zone 8 months ago
It’d make the world a better place, but a big company would make slightly less money, therefore it’s unthinkable to even attempt it.
See also: vehicle emissions standards
poplargrove@lemmy.world 8 months ago
In the case of Google, the effect on advertising bringing in “slightly less money” is an understatement :)