RE: [projectvrm] adblock sells out

[Brian Behlendorf < >]

On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Mike O'Neill wrote:
> This means that people maybe unaware when tracking behaviour is 
> undetected. Already Privacy Badger by design does not detect tracking 
> that uses first-party cookies, and these are just as capable in 
> communicating people's web activities to third-parties.

But those first-party cookies can't be correlated across sites, which is 
the day trade of the third-party trackers and where the leaks come from. 
That is, NYTimes might share its first-party-cookie-based clickstream logs 
with a third party, but that third party could not correlate that person 
at another location (aside from IP address), and could not be used to 
tailor ads on a third-party site to a "NYTimes reader".  That makes the 
third party data mavens much less valuable.

You won't be able to ban first-party tracking unless you turned off 
cookies (and thus authenticated sessions) entirely and prevented sites 
from keeping their own access logs.  Good luck with that.

Brian