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0 pointszwaps7y ago0 comments

I would argue that 99% of sites sending cookies and personal information to social media do so for tracking purposes.

You may be the exception. But its a privacy tradeoff that benefits the majority.

And let me say: if webmasters had shown any respect for privacy in the first place, maybe this would not have occured.

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> I would argue that 99% of sites sending cookies and personal information to social media do so for tracking purposes.

You could click on the reports on this page [1] to find out which sites are broken. Maybe I'll do it when I have a chance.

Any site that uses an API published by one in the disconnect.me list is rendered unusable. That list is 3,000 domains long, so even if there were only an average of 1 legit non-tracking site accessing each domain, that's still 3,000 broken websites.

> You may be the exception. But its a privacy tradeoff that benefits the majority.

I don't know that a tradeoff is necessary. It seems to me it would be possible to not send cookies for the 3,000 domains in the disconnect.me list when tracking protection is enabled.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1101005

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