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Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV (twit.tv)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This episode of Security Now covered Google's plan to deprecate third party cookies and the reaction from advertising organizations and websites.

The articles and the opinions of the show hosts are that it may have negative or unintended consequences as rather than relying on Google's proposed ad selection scheme being run on the client side (hiding information from the advertiser), instead they are demanding first party information from the sites regarding their user's identification.

The article predicts that rather than privacy increasing, a majority of websites may demand user registration so they can collect personal details and force user consent to provide that data to advertisers.

What's your opinion of website advertising, privacy, and data collection?

  • Would you refuse to visit websites that force registration even if the account is free?
  • What's all the fuss about, you don't care?
  • Is advertising a necessary evil in fair trade for content?
  • Would this limit your visiting of websites to only a narrow few you are willing to trade personal details for?
  • Is this a bad thing for the internet experience as whole, or just another progression of technology?
  • Is this no different from using any other technology platform that's free (If it's free, you're the product)?
  • Should website owners just accept a lower revenue model and adapt their business, rather than seeking higher / unfair revenues from privacy invasive practices of the past?
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

let's ban it along with cooking smells, car exhaust, perfume, and cheap deodorant. and any other smells you personally don't like. sound good?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I should just let this go, but part of what offends me about vaping is that people will do it instead of smoking in spaces where smoking is explicitly banned. Since it's smoking adjacent to me mentally (and to a limited extent in causing harm to third parties), I dislike that. And we do ban things like perfume in gyms because it causes unreasonably unpleasant experiences for the people around you, and I shower after grilling or frying if I'm going out, because it is unpleasant for the people around me. It's different degrees of unpleasantness for everything, but I don't think it's unfair for me to dislike people blowing vape clouds in my face indoors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

where i live, you can’t vape where you can’t smoke, so we don’t have that issue. i can see how it would bug people, for sure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Just saying that second hand vaping exposure seems to be something that isn't well understood, but potentially harmful. Just like how vaping is proving not to be harmless to the paper these days. That's what differentiates it from those other smells you're mentioning to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Car exhaust is so much worse for you than vaping. Much less second hand vaping.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

That's fair, I did miss car exhaust from that list with my previous comment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

it’s the same stuff as in digger machines at shows. anyway, in my town you can vape whet you can smoke. which is outside.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

cooking smells

I wonder if the smell of hamburger is offensive to vegans?