Reply to post: Re: Name and shame

What's CNAME of your game? This DNS-based tracking defies your browser privacy defenses

Graham Cobb Silver badge

Re: Name and shame

Technical steps to counter this are very welcome, of course, but we need national regulators to hit all the (adtech) companies providing this and all the (website owner) companies using this with massive fines.

In particular, setting up such a CNAME within your domain would be immediate evidence of your intent to bypass user decisions on control of cookies and should be all the evidence needed for a large fine.

In fact, even before regulators move on this, it would be good if a campaign group announced that if any of the top 10,000 websites are found to still be using this technique in 30 days time, they will be named and shamed, with maximum possible publicity in major newspapers in the countries in which they operate.

Use only legitimate cookies and honour user privacy settings or be named and shamed.

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