Gregory's ServerIn 2023, we published a finding encouraging the deprecation of third party cookies, and the development of new technologies that can replace their functionality. Today, we’re issuing an updated version of that finding to further clarify our position: third-party cookies are harmful to the web and must be removed. https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/web-without-3p-cookies/
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 So long as 3p cookies are not replaced with something local I can't turn off when it turns out it can be gamed. I would like to see any 'new technologies' live entirely on the server side.  @tag @torgo seems like you're a little late to that party. how about deprecating automatically accepting cookies and having them opt-in instead? GDPR says cookies should be consented to, but without browsers actually rejecting cookies by default, we invited this whole dark pattern garbage and websites that just refuse to load without LocalStorage. GDPR says you need informed consent, and there are not that many people worldwide who understand cookie-based business models and data flows well enough to consent (I have been following this stuff for years and still am not informed enough to give informed consent for many/most of the cookies on a random site) Maybe the top posters on Reddit's r/adops and some privacy researchers know enough to consent if they chose to? @tag @torgo also, before anyone mentions that cookie vs. non-cookie tracking is a competition problem, this is from #W3C privacy principles: "Sharing data between different contexts of a single company can be a privacy violation, just as if the same data were shared between unrelated actors.” https://w3ctag.github.io/privacy-principles/#context Turning off 3rd party cookies is good, but good as in "good start" not final outcome |
@tag @torgo But won't someone think of the advertising resellers and surveillance industry?