I don't get why companies pull such shady crap to get behavior data. 99% of it is useless and never even is used to make improvements to products or processes.
Clearly it isn't so useless, or they wouldn't do it.
More to the point, the company using shady means to collect the data does not need to care if the data is useful, just that it's marketable.
It's like grifting, but also a pyramid scheme.
A lot gets used. A lot doesn’t. The technology is designed with trust in mind that it won’t be abused. It completely is. We should really be redesigning protocols to not be intrusive. A lot of information is given that is no longer needed to be functional.
They’re effectively crackheads
I have seen certain links on the internet, where,
The text reads "example.com", and when you hover over it, the little textbox at the bottom left also reads "example.com"
but if you click to open the link in a new tab or if you right click and copy the link and paste it in the address bar, it's actually a completely different link
it's shady af! and im wondering if it's the same thing as what this article is describing, and if not, how they are able to do it?
Basically override the default event for an anchor tag and use js to open a new tab to a given link.
My guess would be JavaScript
Wouldn't it be easier to have a blacklist for cookie domains?
@fmstrat @boredsquirrel
There is already: NoScript and predefined lists. Or Pi-Hole.
Noscript manages cookies? Are cookies only loaded if you enable javascript?
PiHole is obviously not a solution...
Damn! This is good news as I use NoScript for years now.
But thats my point.. Why clear them when you can just block them to begin with?
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