99% of cookies are used to abuse end users. To track their activities in a big brother fashion. To collect their personal information for targeted advertising. And to associate their spending habits with clicks and mouse overs that are sold to millions of businesses. None of this information was collected in good faith, and while it might not meet the legal definition of fraud, there is an ethical charge that they've stolen something they do not own and sold it.
Law makers aren't likely to understand. We're at a point where the uninformed believe Google is the Internet.
If legislation tries to go after Google, we'll get a lot of nonsense about how Google gives people free email and what are these people supposed to do now? They'll scream: OMG I'll lose my email address!
Totally agree with you. Google is trying to be everything to everyone. I personally dumped Chrome in favour of Brave. I value my privacy and the less Google knows, the happier I am. I don't care if the advertisement I see are not tailored to my taste. I don't even read them.
You dumped Chrome in favor of a browser that is entirely dependent on Google for all the code that does the hard work of web rendering and still does plenty of its own tracking.
Sorry but Brave is about the most asinine counter productive project out there. At least be half-way serious about helping to preserve a real non-google alternative and use something mozilla based.
Or if you're against using a browser made by a huge company like Google, buy a Mac and use Safari!
While I agree that this is funny, the big difference is that Apple doesn't live off of your data. Not that they're better than Google or anything, it's not just their business model at the moment. They tried ans they're not good at it, so they stopped.
So yes, I feel much better off by using Safari than Chrome.
As vice chairman of the pedantic society I have to disagree and say that 99% of cookies are simply used to maintain session state, it's the other 1% that cause all the problems.
Not so much when you are talking about business applications that are delivered via the web where different components could be written and/or hosted by other vendors. This would be a valid use for the proposal.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social
sciences' is: some do, some don't.
-- Ernest Rutherford
More cookies is more bad (Score:5, Informative)
99% of cookies are used to abuse end users. To track their activities in a big brother fashion. To collect their personal information for targeted advertising. And to associate their spending habits with clicks and mouse overs that are sold to millions of businesses. None of this information was collected in good faith, and while it might not meet the legal definition of fraud, there is an ethical charge that they've stolen something they do not own and sold it.
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99% of google's tech is to abuse end users.
past time to castrate them
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Law makers aren't likely to understand. We're at a point where the uninformed believe Google is the Internet.
If legislation tries to go after Google, we'll get a lot of nonsense about how Google gives people free email and what are these people supposed to do now? They'll scream: OMG I'll lose my email address!
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Totally agree with you. Google is trying to be everything to everyone. I personally dumped Chrome in favour of Brave. I value my privacy and the less Google knows, the happier I am. I don't care if the advertisement I see are not tailored to my taste. I don't even read them.
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You dumped Chrome in favor of a browser that is entirely dependent on Google for all the code that does the hard work of web rendering and still does plenty of its own tracking.
Sorry but Brave is about the most asinine counter productive project out there. At least be half-way serious about helping to preserve a real non-google alternative and use something mozilla based.
Re:More cookies is more bad (Score:4, Funny)
Or if you're against using a browser made by a huge company like Google, buy a Mac and use Safari!
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Okay, that made me chuckle.
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Or if you're against using a browser made by a huge company like Google, buy a Mac and use Safari!
While I agree that this is funny, the big difference is that Apple doesn't live off of your data. Not that they're better than Google or anything, it's not just their business model at the moment. They tried ans they're not good at it, so they stopped.
So yes, I feel much better off by using Safari than Chrome.
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So now we’re against using OSS?
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of third-party cross site cookies?
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Not so much when you are talking about business applications that are delivered via the web where different components could be written and/or hosted by other vendors. This would be a valid use for the proposal.