What is your concern with being tracked by cookies?
Zikzak, you know weâre all gonna die someday right?
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The âifâ in this sentence is doing A LOT of work. Youâre basically trusting a for profit company to use information asymmetry to benefit consumers and not themselves. Like, sure, theoretically 1% of the value of your data might accrue to you and 99% to them but thats a best case scenario. I think most peopleâs lives get net worse from participating in invasive data collection and only the data collectors win.
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No itâs not. The vast majority of internet users prefer their content curated, though most donât realize it. Curating content is probably the defining characteristic of social media.
Seriously? You have to ask why I value privacy?
And itâs not just the being tracked part. I also donât want to have my experiences curated by a damn algorithm. Thatâs just horrible to me.
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Time, date and method of death predetermined by a proprietary algorithm that maximizes engagement and revenue.
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Oh I donât doubt that. Iâm saying that it doesnât yield the benefits that they think it does.
@clovis8 being self aware enough to realize how cheaply he gives away privacy is genuinely impressive. Very few people are.
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I think you want to be buying maple syrup, not maple flavored syrup.
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How dare you, my gran would be affronted 
Iâm not sure the 1% 99% breakdown is accurate but even if it was I really struggle to see how it effects my life if an algorithm knows I go to pornhub or surf for new tech too much.
I think things like cookies get conflated with real privacy risks like doxxing or massive data breaches.
I do it consciously. I am obsessed with tweaking everything about my internet experience. There is not a device on my system that isnât optimized. I have like 75 devices on my network and every system setting hacked to some degree.
I could easily stop tracking by cookies. I just donât see why I would want to.
One example is online shopping, especially booking flights. Depending on how much interest your browsing history has shown they will adjust the prices they show you upward.
The AI is working constantly to convert your habits into a profile and shape everything about your online experience. Its not the fact that they have this information thatâs troubling, its that they use it to shape your whole perception of the internet and by extension the world (since we engage the world through our phones).
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This is a myth though. Do a quick search. You will see it is widely debunked.
Itâs a measure of how hot a pepper is. Each individual pepper, due to variance, would have a slightly different value if measured. Furthermore, human tasters are involved (IIRC), so there is some variance there.
They extract some oil from the pepper for testing, so weight of the pepper shouldnât have very much to do with it. However, it seems that if two peppers were off the same tree at the same stage of ripeness, the larger one might have slightly higher non-capsaicin to capsaicin composition and might rate as slightly less hot (but still well within expected range).
I agree this can be a troubling part but as someone who knows this it is easily counteracted. Itâs like any type of media literacy. When I am on a known curated platform like TikTok I act differently than when I am free browsing the web.
I donât see how stopping cookies changes this. Doing so doesnât change anything about your ability to roam the net freely. It just means you get generic content at those curated sites that makes the experience poorer.
I did and I came up empty. Help me out?
Edit: Found something
The reason why I posted my original comment are articles like the one below: