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Noted by Damian Cugley .
Free websites funded by advertising is the original sin which has blighted our online lives: third-party tracking of visitors to websites is so pervasive we have mostly given up on stopping it, despite the damage it does and the potential for abuse. This article from The Markup is an introduction to just how much tracking goes on & how it can affect vulnerable groups.
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Blacklight shows you the trackers on a web site. Or you can use it to verify that a site does not track you.
This links to the report for my own link-noting web site pdc.ooble.uk.
(Via @meyerweb on Twitter)
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The original spec for cookies was GDPR compliant—and anticipated the advertising-driven disasterscape we live in today.
(Via Tony Finch's link log)
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
Ad companies want to track your location so as to better manipulate you, and will stoop to some fairly underhanded tactics when thwarted by privacy enhancements in the browser.
- Noted by Damian Cugley .
