> Of course, the alternative is to not use cookies, to not use any web analytics products, or to resolve to

Honestly, I could not parse this rant that is a chain of non-sequiturs

> Please let me know what browser does what I describe.

Segmenting cookies has been a thing in all browsers for half a decade at least. Everyone but Chrome block third-party cookies. Safari clears out a bunch of cookies periodically (and PWA developers hate it for that)

> But I went on to detail the much "easier" solution where the EU aims its big swinging...list of mandates... at the 2-3 browser vendors

Ah yes, because tracking is only limited to cookies and to browsers.

> Sure, but also I question to what extent anyone is being harmed by "tracking" in the most broad sense of that word. As far as I can tell, the public believes "tracking is a problem" primarily because they resent retargeting ads. That's all.

Well, people from countries with quite recent cases of pervasive and invasive surveillance have other problems with invasive and pervasive tracking.

> The more reasonable concern is more around data brokers and the data about a person being sold and aggregated, which mostly gets concerning when it could be used for stalking, targeting political dissidents, etc. The fact that I spent 34 seconds on A product page, then 32 seconds on B, then added B to my cart and then bounced, that is the nature of all of the data being tracked on 90% of websites, they don't traffic in my location data or even want to collect sensitive information.

You have to chose one stance, not multiple at the same time:

- is this not a problem because who cares about a single ID?

- is this a problem because data broker amass and trade vast amounts of sensitive personal data?

> But every website is affected by the GDPR's vague definitions of "tracking."

Ah yes. It's GDPR that causes these poor innocent web sites to use data brokers that keep my precise location data for 12 years: https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1817122117093056541

And GDPR isn't required at all, because all we need to do is make the 2-3 major browser to just not set cookies, because that's all we're concerned about. There are no other ways of tracking people, and that tracking data isn't used by anyone anywhere.

Except, you know, "data brokers and the data about a person being sold and aggregated", but who cares about that.