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Originally Posted by thecoalman
Why would any care if a website has that information anyway?
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Most people don't care. That wasn't my point.
The point is that such information is unsolicited, doesn't require cookies, and can be used along with other bits of information to create which can be (in many if not most cases) a unique fingerprint for your browser which might well allow me to track your behavior on my web site and across any others I happen to control ... all without your knowledge or consent.
If my web site is a search engine that acts as a portal to other sites, like a Google or Bing, I might be able to determine all sorts of interesting things about the search terms you use and the sites you choose to click on.
Again, all without cookies, and all without your explicit consent.
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If you want to come to my site and use a service I'm offering I get to set the terms not you. If you don't like the terms you can always not use the service.
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Web site owners are not the folks who need to be concerned, and I can only assume that your own legitimate users have no need to be concerned about you, either.
The topic is dangers related to online profiling, and I'm simply telling you that your above comment about users being able to control that sort of thing via cookies is misleading at best, and may be an outright dangerous assertion.