Hi Asyn,
On the other hand. Do these German publishers really respect end-users with their basic privacy concerns?
To be able to read Premium articles of the main papers in the Netherlands I have to clear the browser cache beforehand,
as I am entitled to only to read three articles a day. With Cliqz Internet Privacy Browser (a very good German invention),
I can now read as many of such articles as I want. It cleanses the cache by default. Cookie-walls, first-party-trackers,
a real cat and mouse game.
Users should install AdNauseam ->
https://adnauseam.io/ because we have to fence for ourselves,
as Big Data Trackers won't self-regulate.
Even worse:
Google's alternative proposal, part of its "Privacy Sandbox" initiative,
calls for an identifier field capable of storing 64 bits of data – considerably more than the integer 64.
As the Electronic Frontier Foundation has pointed out, this enables a range of numbers up to 18 quintillion,
allowing advertisers to create unique IDs for every ad impression they serve, information
that could then be associated with individual users
That is why firefox now won't sign the Berners-Lee new proposal, as they say it is not binding for big players as Google and facebook.
Also as they see it, there is no way to hold such Big Tech Monopolists responsible, when they do not uphold the nine principles of the Berners-Lee's plan to save the Internet. How to deal with Google and facebook as they cannot be trusted with your privacy!
US regulators are not coming to the rescue here, EU is found to be a watchdog without teeth.
Mozilla is the one party against the Big Chrome & Chromium Browser klone wave, that will jump through Google's every hoop.
Sad but that is what we are up against, and everybody has to fence for themselves.
S.G. from the region of Rotterdam, Netherlands.
polonus (volunteer third party cold recon website security analyst and website error-hunter)
