Agreed. There is another poster in this thread commenting about "privacy". There is a certain class of perfect privacy fetishist that is completely blind to the fact that that particular horse has long, long bolted out the stable.
All these arguments serve, when they are successful in hobbling the browser as an app platform, is too push developers into native apps in the app store. And then the developer doesn't need to fingerprint you, they get your identity just for asking.
Meanwhile, browsing habits (sites visited + time of day of visit) is enough to fingerprint the vast majority of people. And sites do collude on the backend to share this data with advertisers, long before the user ever gets a chance to block it in the client app.
If privacy fetishists see the browser as a sinking ship, they don't seem to realize they are trying to bail out the Titanic with a teaspoon, or that there is no such thing as dry land. The only way to stay private is too stay off the network entirely.
All these arguments serve, when they are successful in hobbling the browser as an app platform, is too push developers into native apps in the app store. And then the developer doesn't need to fingerprint you, they get your identity just for asking.
Meanwhile, browsing habits (sites visited + time of day of visit) is enough to fingerprint the vast majority of people. And sites do collude on the backend to share this data with advertisers, long before the user ever gets a chance to block it in the client app.
If privacy fetishists see the browser as a sinking ship, they don't seem to realize they are trying to bail out the Titanic with a teaspoon, or that there is no such thing as dry land. The only way to stay private is too stay off the network entirely.