For those who don’t care to read the full article:
This basically just confines any cookies generated on a page, to just that page.
So, instead of a cookie from, say, Facebook, being stored on site A, then requested for tracking purposes on site B, each individual site would be sent its own separate Facebook cookie, that only gets used on that site, preventing it from tracking you anywhere outside of the specific site you got it from in the first place.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Get fucked, advertisers.
ngwoo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Advertisers track you with device fingerprinting and behaviour profiling now. Firefox doesn’t do much to obscure the more advanced methods of tracking.
MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Don’t all the advanced ways rely on JavaScript?
unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
It’s not much but they try a whole lot more than most.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Honestly would be hard to do. There a perfectly legitimate and everyday uses for pretty much everything used in fingerprinting. Taking them away or obscuring them in one way or another would break so much.
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
EU outlaws it
where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah, you need uMatrix. although it can be tricky to use.
rdri@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There is still plenty of fish for advertisers, sadly.