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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Very good point in this article that third-party cookies can be deleted but fingerprinting - like fingerprints themselves - cannot be. And quoting Google in 2019 before they decided to be even more evil than they are now.

This might be the best article I've seen about the change, and it's posted on a company blog.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The article appears to be high on repetition and low on detail. I saw very little evidence supporting the claims and even less external resources.

What I did see was lots of links to their products.

I'm not saying that the article is wrong, just that it's not great.

This BBC article cites several organisations and explains how it's done for example:

Edit: Added link

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago

Touche. I didn't realize how many of the links in Tuta's blog post were to their own blog.