Depressing!
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if you want a working website its pants down.
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Reviewing my own OP, that was, in fact, explained in the second link:
…Google is now driving Tag Manager into the first-party domain, switching from third-party to first-party cookie usage…
I guess it didn’t sink into my brain. Lol.
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i am currently doubting the accuracy of the articles.
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How about this?
General web browser:
- disable javascript universally (uBO)
- disable service-workers (as a fallback measure)
- re-enable javascript per website if and as necessary; service-workers still blocked via
about:config) - block all cookies, then allow necessary cookies ad hoc
- delete all cookies on exit
Separate web browser (in my case, mainly for financial account logins):
- whatever doesn’t disrupt things so much as to prevent site use
Plus all of one’s usual privacy and anti-fingerprinting tools.
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Perhaps the only true remedy is legislative.
Beyond that, because government is often part of the problem rather than part of the solution, gemini ? However I must admit that I myself have not yet dabbled in gemini.
Just for fun I am blocking a number of subnets that are ostensibly part of the Google cloud. It is interesting to see which web sites and functions immediately break - and to measure how much I really want to use those - and how infrequently I will use those when I have the inconvenience of closing applications and lowering shields beforehand in order to use those.
This is of course on top of “PiHole” and PrivacyBadger.
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I’ve toyed with the idea of setting up one computer and blocking every one of those Google ASNs, using the “@antonis Method,” just to see exactly how crippled access to the internet would be.
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My bank, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) won’t let us log in unless we drop all of our anti-stalkers.
Even if I go from my Windows box and log on via PurewOS box, they freak out and want to send a security code to make sure it’s me. But they want to send it a victim-phone, a Android or iOS and not a landline.
Problem is, when you call and wait the guaranteed 1 hour wait and get a human, each has a different way of handling a landline. Another time, a guy wouldn’t do that and refused to cooperate. When I turned the tide, and "If you don’t want to cooperate with me, I can call back and get someone better trained. That worked.
Several places I need access to require I drop all protection, and must use M$ Edge - nothing else.
Damned if we do, damned if we don’t. They’re winning.
~s
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Only if you let them.
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And? How crippled it is? I guess it should almost unusable…
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Very likely, but I haven’t tried it so far.
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