Something I noticed on a few websites, including stackoverflow, is that they leave tracking settings up to a different website, which still lets that external party know what websites a user has been seeing, and this can be maliciously abused.
I realize this might have been mentioned before, but I didn’t see any similar posts in a quick search.
Naturally, I have both these “cookie” sites denied access.
I also felt that I should mention that any external asset domains can also see this traffic, too, but those typically aren’t used with tracking - or the opposite thereof - in mind.
![[Opinion] If your site uses an external domain for determining if a user consents to tracking or not, you are still providing a vector for tracking, whether you and your user choose to allow it or not(lemmy.world)](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d6f7fc3a-b4b8-42b6-9666-78279711c30b.png){kind=link}
How do you, personally, block cookies? Like, manually or with an extension or…? Do all your devices have the block?
I run a pihole, but I think cookies work very differently than ad dns. I don’t really understand the various components of the internet, tbh.
I use browser extensions that - from what I’m understanding - remove any external script references, or at least prevent the script from loading, but I’ll admit, the pihole method is what I’ve been drooling over for a while now, but haven’t arranged yet. Also, it’s probably more trustable than a browser extension, ironically. 😅
Do you mean for cookie control? I don’t think pihole can do that (and some basic searches seem to agree), but again idk how the whole thing works…
It’s easy af to set up for adblocking though. I’m not super tech savvy and it took like an hour, start to finish, including time to track down a USB.