Maybe I’m getting things backwards here, but wouldn’t disabling cookie persistence actually stop some of the more malicious forms of tracking, where different websites track your activity across websites? I’m not an expert on this specific matter but my understanding was that website A saves a cookie in your browser, which website B then uses to identify you (maybe with some extra steps of shipping that data off to some data broker or w/e but you get the picture). I thought that disabling persistence would stop that from occurring in the sense that once your restart your browser and go to website B, there is nothing from A for them to look at.
It will stop tracking between session (after a restart), but not during a session (or “in session”). There is plenty to be collected during a session and you might even actually use some of that data to correlate a user between sessions.
It’s more important to keep cookies separate per sites, like Firefox’s Total Cookie Protection does.
It does, the GDPR does not talk about cookies but tracking consent. Cookies are one of the tools for tracking.
Also disabling cookie persistence does nothing against in session tracking.
Maybe I’m getting things backwards here, but wouldn’t disabling cookie persistence actually stop some of the more malicious forms of tracking, where different websites track your activity across websites? I’m not an expert on this specific matter but my understanding was that website A saves a cookie in your browser, which website B then uses to identify you (maybe with some extra steps of shipping that data off to some data broker or w/e but you get the picture). I thought that disabling persistence would stop that from occurring in the sense that once your restart your browser and go to website B, there is nothing from A for them to look at.
It will stop tracking between session (after a restart), but not during a session (or “in session”). There is plenty to be collected during a session and you might even actually use some of that data to correlate a user between sessions.
It’s more important to keep cookies separate per sites, like Firefox’s Total Cookie Protection does.
They aren’t asking me for permission to track me, they’re asking permission to save cookies to that end.
I refuse them the permission they are legally required to acquire from me