alt Hacker News>abusing mandated GDPR cookie notices to secretly track people?
How does that even work? What can GDPR cookie notices can do that the typical tracker can't do?
>abusing mandated GDPR cookie notices to secretly track people?
How does that even work? What can GDPR cookie notices can do that the typical tracker can't do?
The cookie preference pop-up is a cookie. To track your preference, they need a cookie. We legally mandated a cookie. They're using the cookie regardless. But no one will call them on it until a critical mass is reached to get cases in a sufficiently large number of jurisdictions to curtail the behavior.