Cookies are soon to be a thing of the past; Google wants to play in the Sandbox instead. It might sound rather twee, but this marks a seismic shift in the online ecosystem that will affect us all.

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    4 years ago

    OMG, this is so stupid… on one hand they say “subversion of user choice is wrong” but then when users are given a choice then they say ““quite a significant proportion of people” are not accepting cookies when prompted online” … “Where we are at the moment is not ideal,”".

    So they want users to not have a choice but make them feel as if they have? WTF is wrong with this people. Can this companies realize that nobody wants them and just stop refusing to die already!?

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      4 years ago

      This is horrible. Any “solution” for “people are not accepting cookies” will just reinforce Google’s dominance over private data. This “sandbox” solutions is more of a Google’s jail for your private data that they will let some people who pay them to get a pass.

      What about just delegalize any company that does forced tracking including Google and Facebook instead of pretending something is being done here about this…

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      4 years ago

      The rest of the people in Earth are stupid.

      As long as they exist, Google will continue exploiting them.

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        4 years ago

        I was one of these people until I started looking into how Google makes money… Given all this is rather technical I can’t expect most people to understand this.

        I don’t understand many things like food safety and somehow if I buy stuff in the market I don’t get poisoned, so it can be done.