it's so beneficial that it should not stop to comply with the law;
and compliance with the law should be done in the most obnoxious way possible.
Because even if you decide on tracking, cookies banners are still not required!
It's the worse way possible to meet the legal requirements for the users.
There has been for years a proposal for a standard, designed in 2009 (!), still available in all the popular web browsers (except safari) that can make for a seamless experience: the DNT header." https://www.bitecode.dev/p/there-is-no-eu-cookie-banner-law
#EU#Meta#Facebook#Instagram#AdTracking#Privacy#DataProtection: "Meta is partially blocking the use of Facebook and Instagram until users have selected one option or the other, which constitutes an aggressive practice under European consumer law. Through persistence and by creating a sense of urgency, Meta pushes consumers into making a choice they might not want to take.
In addition, many consumers likely think that, by opting for the paid subscription as it is presented, they get a privacy-friendly option involving less tracking and profiling. In fact, users are likely to continue to have their personal data collected and used, but for purposes other than ads.
Meta provides misleading and incomplete information to consumers which does not allow them to make an informed choice. Meta is misleading them by presenting the choice as between a paying and a ‘free’ option, while the latter option is not ‘free’ because consumers pay Meta through the provision of their data, as past court rulings have already declared."
#Privacy#AdTracking#Fingerprinting#Cybersecurity#DigitalRights: "Badger Swarm orchestrates a swarm of auto-driven Privacy Badgers to cover much more ground than a single badger could. On a more technical level, Badger Swarm converts a Badger Sett scan of X sites into N parallel Badger Sett scans of X/N sites. This makes medium scans complete as quickly as small scans, and large scans complete in a reasonable amount of time.
Badger Swarm also helps us produce new insights that lead to improved Privacy Badger protections. For example, Privacy Badger now blocks fingerprinters hosted by CDNs, a feature made possible by Badger Swarm-powered expanded scanning. 2
We are releasing Badger Swarm in hope of providing a helpful foundation to web researchers. Like Badger Sett, Badger Swarm is tailor-made for Privacy Badger. However, also like Badger Sett, we built Badger Swarm so it's simple to use and modify."
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.
#EU#GDPR#DataProtection#Privacy#AdTracking: "Hundreds of fines have been issued for breaches of GDPR, including against Google, British Airways and Amazon. But data experts say those are just the tip of the iceberg. A study last year by David Basin at ETH Zurich in Switzerland found that 95 per cent of websites may be breaking GDPR rules. Even the legislation’s aim to make it easier to understand what data we are agreeing to provide has gone unrealised. Since the legislation came into effect, research shows that privacy agreements have become more convoluted, not less. And if you thought that ad-blockers and virtual private networks (VPNs) – which hide your computer’s IP address – offer protection, think again. Many of these services also sell on your data.
We are only now grasping the scale and intricacy of the online tracking landscape. A few big names – the likes of Google, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft – hold much of the power, says Isabel Wagner, associate professor of cybersecurity at the University of Basel, Switzerland. But behind these big players, a diverse ecosystem of thousands, if not millions, of buyers, sellers, servers, trackers and analysers are sharing our personal data."
People often read this quote and assume the negation; that if you are paying you aren’t the product. Unfortunately for any public company that simply isn’t true. The true “customers” of a public company are the shareholders, and they demand maximum profit. The people paying (or not) are just a resource to be mined as effectively as possible 」
— kevincox.ca