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Yes, browser tracking prevention is one of those things that seems like a good idea at first but likely makes the internet slightly worse overall.

Sites can only optimize for what they can see and we've made it so they can only see short-term engagement.

Another is all the annoying cookie popups as a result of GDPR.

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You haven't convinced me that preventing browser tracking is making the internet "slightly worse overall".

If sites are having trouble converting me, perhaps it's not me that's the problem.

The issue is most sites can no longer tell if they are converting you

It's not obvious to me that that is a problem for me, or that it makes the internet worse

The popups are a result of tracking, not GDPR. Websites without tracking don't need to have them.

It's somewhat amusing that the overlap of garbage content farms and sites with annoying consent popups is almost perfect. I wonder if it could be used for search engine ranking.

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