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by jasonlotito 972 days ago
> I am ok with seeing ads, until they don't track my behavior

Once again, people blaming sites for things browsers should handle. It's not YouTube that does the tracking; it's your browser allowing it to happen. YouTube is not fetching data from you. YouTube is using the data you send it. This comes from the browser, allowing it to happen. The misplaced blame is why we are in this state.
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skydhash 972 days ago
Maligned usage is what they’re doing. Cookies is good for storing state as HTTP is stateless. Bu if you storing some marker so you can track me around the web, it’s in bad faith. Just like a program can use 4 GB of RAM if that’s needed but something that is just greedily taking memory is what we call a malware.
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jasonlotito 971 days ago
This can be solved in the browsers while still keeping cookies. And it's not the sites forcing this, it's the browsers allowing this.
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