Oh you want location data here it is, this morning I've been all over the planet. Want to know all the websites I'm visiting, sure, here's a million of them.
Just based on the fact that they keep trying to sell you the thermometer after you already don't care kind of points out that they're being had, and I'm all for helping it happen
Now they either require you to login to get the "mobile" experience, like Facebook or Twitter, or they use probabilistic statistics to identify you without cookies.
That guy reading a newspaper in the park with a paper bag over his head and 4 goons on the lookout, feeding us uninformative/unlikely data, that guy is with 90% certainty Jacques Mattheij.
(When cookie-tracking was more common we set up a cookie-swap program. Stopped after a few months out of security concerns.)
It's funny how a law that actually confirms a right that is solidly anchored in the declaration of human rights would result in technological circumvention rather than - the expected outcome - compliance.
If necessity is the mother of invention, profitability is the mother of circumvention.
(Great blog post, btw.)
If you're going to war, sure. But that's a lot of wasted resources.
One would hope that we can find a peaceful solution. But war is always an option.