https://zhisme.com/tags/internet/Recent content in Internet on @zhisme :: signal over noiseHugoen-usThu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://zhisme.com/articles/word-on-internet-privacy/Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://zhisme.com/articles/word-on-internet-privacy/<h2 id="the-sweetest-cookies">The Sweetest Cookies</h2> <p>I recently found that people fall into the illusion that all these dancing popups that block your sight from reading articles, news, and other sites, with some bullshit title stating &ldquo;We value your privacy, please set your choice,&rdquo; and that pressing reject will stop them from tracking you. But there&rsquo;s always a tiny asterisk saying (we will store only necessary anonymous data to keep our product improving). But the thing is, your <strong>cookies</strong> persist between site visits, and Google and other companies already put some data that can help identify you (but yes, it&rsquo;s so-called &ldquo;anonymous&rdquo; data – nowhere does it state that you are, for example, <em>Evgeny Zhdanov</em> and you&rsquo;re interested in programming and drinking beer).</p>