Nothing will stop someone from rolling their own primitive tracking and hoping to fly under the radar of governments.
However, major advertisers and tracking companies are established companies with significant presence in the US and EU. They need servers everywhere to ensure low latency. I don't see how they could work around it if half of their business model is made illegal by Western governments. They'd have to return to doing tracking by ip and cookies (and maybe localstorage, whatever the law exempts) only. I don't see why that shouldn't be enough.
I agree in principle that fixing the browsers to remove fingerprinting vectors is the correct approach, and making tracking illegal is not. I just think making it illegal would work, at least mostly, because companies that are good at tracking would have to comply.
However, major advertisers and tracking companies are established companies with significant presence in the US and EU. They need servers everywhere to ensure low latency. I don't see how they could work around it if half of their business model is made illegal by Western governments. They'd have to return to doing tracking by ip and cookies (and maybe localstorage, whatever the law exempts) only. I don't see why that shouldn't be enough.
I agree in principle that fixing the browsers to remove fingerprinting vectors is the correct approach, and making tracking illegal is not. I just think making it illegal would work, at least mostly, because companies that are good at tracking would have to comply.