internet software
Is legal to block tracking cookies by tool (machine arrangement)?
<p>I was browsing and suddenly my browser told me that blocked tracking cookies. (Of course some time before I was told that from now on it is able to do so.)</p>

<p>I wonder if it is truly legal to block third party tracking cookies on sites using tool let say en masse.</p>

<p>Usually any website provide option to give consent with storing cookies and I believe although I didn’t go through all the description notes that such announcement had third party cookies consent was noted by them.</p>

<p>It seems to me it is not fully legal. Or it starts to be illlegal when the site clearly declares that using cookies is part of their using agreement? Where is the boundary between the cases? Should I rely on browsers manufacturer law awareness?</p>

<h2>You can do anything you want with cookies</h2>

<p>Because they are residing on your own data processing equipment, using resources on that equipment, which belongs to you; and the company has not signed a contract nor paid a consideration for those services and resources. </p>

<p>I for one wipe ALL my cookies at intervals of my choice. </p>

<h2>You are also allowed to hop browsers</h2>

<p>You are allowed to switch from Chrome to Firefox, from PC 1 to PC 2 to Android to iPad.  If you were legally obliged to support their tracking cookies, then you would be legally obliged to transport those cookies across each browser, box and platform.  </p>

<h2>They have other recourses for that</h2>

<p>Even if they wanted to legally oblige you to identify in a unique manner  as a condition of (what? Providing content?) , <strong>they already have technical means at their disposal to do so, such as require sign-in</strong>.  </p>

<p>Further, this method allows them to deal with the inadvertent "multiple cookie" issue. The sign-in system allows them to present a Terms of Service in the signup phase, which gives them legal teeth to <em>actively outlaw</em> multiple identities under the guise of forbidding sockpuppets.</p>

<p><strong>When an obvious, gold-standard method exists, courts are reluctant to enforce awkward alternate methods which create a lot of new legal issues</strong>. </p>
