Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
i'm going to explain this as simply as possible.
denying the use of cookies is not denying the use of interest based advertising.
I didn't realize you were also an advertising industry expert. Look at increasing scope of expertise you've amassed in just this thread!

Mainstream interest based advertising depends on cookies. You're obsessing on the corner case of workarounds that don't involve traditional cookies. Yet these issues (and these insane regulations) revolve around traditional cookies.

You may not be old enough to remember, but the developers of Web browsers had this debate in the late 1990s, when almost every browser by default asked permission before dropping a cookie. This was deemed cumbersome, pointless and a bad user experience, so browser development shifted towards allowing people to choose to restrict cookies if they wanted.

The kinds of Web services we've enjoyed as a result of this choice is pretty astounding. It doesn't make sense to bring us back to the dark ages (relatively speaking) instead of just educating people what cookies are.