A look at Global Privacy Control, a new web standard designed to let users opt out of data sharing with all third-party brokers globally, with a single click
On today's internet, information is nearly impossible to control. It's become commonplace for a single website visit to spill … Tweets: @jason_kint , @el33th4xor , @websmyth , and @cyborgtribe Tweets: Jason Kint / @jason_kint : Wow. Buried lede. Over 40 million users now have one-click to request to not be tracked across the web, thousands of websites will be honoring it - big and small. This is on top of Apple's similar and imminent parallel move with IDFA. https://www.theverge.com/... Emin Gün Sirer / @el33th4xor : Great development for online privacy. https://twitter.com/... Dave Smyth / @websmyth : Just installed this Global Privacy Control on Firefox: took about 10 seconds. 👀 Go to this link and install...that's it 👇 https://addons.mozilla.org/... https://twitter.com/... Kevin Hill / @cyborgtribe : Great news that this seems to be moving forward steadily, and @DuckDuckGo has been a great leader here. If you don't use their search engine, at least use their chrome plugin. https://twitter.com/...