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Yeah it's other businesses.

@alice_watson Verified (not that I didn't believe you). Following the "Essential" link, apparently all 517 "partners" claim the cookies are necessary to "Ensure security, prevent and detect fraud, and fix errors"

Bullshit.

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"We value your privacy" ... as being profitable enough to sell it!

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What the fuck happened to the internet?

I mean, capitalism obviously, but holy shit, how did we all let it come to this?

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One thing I don't understand is: if they are selling your data to third parties, why you aren't entitled to royalty payments for sale and usage thereof.

@alice_watson @alice weird how the strictly essential and targeting cookies are practically the same amount

i suspect whoever is doing their tag management doesnt give a fuck

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Surveillance capitalism in action. :D

"essential for our financial survival" maybe? Except that is not how the GDPR works.

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Not sure if it helps anything, but there are browsseer extensions which delete the cookies after certain perioid and set other restrctions on them.

@alice_watson @alice „It might not be essential for you to share your data with our partners, but it’s essential to our business model.“ 😉

This is so wrong. Ads are annoying, but selling ads should be the end of it. Selling your actual readers is several steps too far. Problem is, they have to make money some way, and the old „sell a billboard in the web“ seems not to be sufficient anymore. 😢

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no one interested in your “Social Media Cookies” ?

(or was the number just too big to fit into the little box?)

@alice_watson @alice it's so CREEPY! wtf.

And it's happening on your phone - the apps don't even need to be open!
Who said that this is OK? Not me.

#surveillancecapitalism

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I was right to avoid that site.

- he said smugly

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Yeah, I need to update CookieMunger to happily accept cookies to munge.

https://github.com/jrconlin/cookie_munger