It’s just that cookies are only one tool for tracking. When you accept all you consent to tracking but it doesn’t necessarily use cookies for that tracking.
Are you trying to suggest that I would be better to just deny the cookies? I don’t know what you’re trying to say by linking to that article.
Device fingerprinting as a technique it’s pretty easy to defeat. There are plenty of privacy focused browsers that will also include device fingerprinting protection. In fact pretty much any browser that doesn’t store cookies will also do this device fingerprinting protection as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint
…how does that help?
It’s just that cookies are only one tool for tracking. When you accept all you consent to tracking but it doesn’t necessarily use cookies for that tracking.
Haha yeah, I doubt cookies are even a necessity in many modern stacks
No, they are a necessity for so many things, no doubt about that. They’ve plenty of legitimate uses.
You can hold anything in a session on the server as 1kb here and there is nothing nowadays
And how do you think the session is kept between requests? With a cookie.
Are you trying to suggest that I would be better to just deny the cookies? I don’t know what you’re trying to say by linking to that article.
Device fingerprinting as a technique it’s pretty easy to defeat. There are plenty of privacy focused browsers that will also include device fingerprinting protection. In fact pretty much any browser that doesn’t store cookies will also do this device fingerprinting protection as well.
It’s really hard to know how efficient a device fingerprinting protection is.