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0 pointsandrenotgiant15y ago0 comments

agreed. I guess I left out my suggestion for what the problem really is:

If you are concerned about Ad Networks having so much data on you, clear your cookies and block cookies from them. Then they will never be able to string together more than one piece of data.

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subway15y ago

You're only bumping the problem from a per-browser (cookie) aggregation to per a machine or household (IP address) aggregation.

raganwald15y ago

Let's not slip into a false dichotomy. We don't need to argue about whether to block cookies OR block search engine leakage.

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