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Terence Eden | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @eab399bd We tried - but the ad industry didn't want it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
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Sangwhan Moon | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @2fd7551e I suppose with 3p cookies going away, it's moot at this point.
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Terence Eden | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @eab399bd yup. Anyone who doesn't want to be tracked just installs an ad-blocker and then hits "accept" to all the cookies.
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a71ab440 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @eab399bd @2fd7551e I don't think the prompts are going away though
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Terence Eden | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @5000b5fe @eab399bd again, plenty of plugins which obliterate them.
But, if the ad industry want to annoy their users, that's on them.
Nothing will change until Google is broken up. Simply untenable to have a User Agent which profits from anti-user activity.