[Opinion] If your site uses an external domain for determining if a user consents to tracking or not, you are still providing a vector for tracking, whether you and your user choose to allow it or not (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by jmeel@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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Something I noticed on a few websites, including stackoverflow, is that they leave tracking settings up to a different website, which still lets that external party know what websites a user has been seeing, and this can be maliciously abused.

I realize this might have been mentioned before, but I didn't see any similar posts in a quick search.

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[-] railsdev@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

I’ve noticed this too and it’s ridiculous. How hard is it to keep cookies on your own domain? All this third party BS on websites needs to die.

I run a business and guess what? Zero third party dependencies. I don’t need to harass my users about cookies because the only time I use them is for logging in/out.

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