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I imagine self hosted solution would still forward the information to the third party in the backend



That alone doesn't allow cross-site tracking. You need a way to identify that the person on one site is the same person on another site, which is the role the third-party cookie plays. Firefox is eliminating the third-party cookie, and working to eliminate cookie-less fingerprinting techniques as well. Who hosts the information is not the concern.


Good point, that’s a great improvement. I just believe you would still be able to identify and fingerprint individuals across sites if you simply pass data through self hosted solution to 3rd part aggregate


> to eliminate cookie-less fingerprinting techniques as well.

That's not feasible without turning off JavaScript completely.




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