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1. Legend2440 · 1789923799 · focus · HN ↗

   So basically the same kind of tracking that Facebook, Google, etc have been doing for decades?

   1. gentlewater · 1789930095 · focus · HN ↗

      Which has really only been accepted because 99% of people don’t understand how it works. Hard to be outraged by something you can’t see or understand. In my book, the practice is akin to malware. I recently opened a website for an AI service in incognito mode, because I didn’t care to have it in my search results. Despite avoiding third party cookies here, the site still fired off a tracker to Meta, who then correlated my home IP address with my Facebook account, and filled my feed with ads for this AI service. When I was tracked like this despite a somewhat informed defense, which defense do normal people have against this? None.

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