Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking (2016)(thenextweb.com)
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Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking (2016)
https://thenextweb.com/google/2019/02/05/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking/
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(2016) - note the first line:
This article was originally published by ProPublica on October 21st, 2016.
It also had a big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19076528. I wonder why it keeps getting reposted?
I'm surprised that this change did not receive much publicity when it was rolled out. Could it be that journalists did not look into what the changes entailed, or should I put a tinfoil hat on? It seems a bit... convenient that we are only now getting to know this when its already been active for many months.
Personally I never browse logged-in to Google or Facebook, and only use Chrome minimally. If I do need to use Gmail or Google Calendar, I either launch a private window or use a Container Tab in Firefox.
Personally I never browse logged-in to Google or Facebook, and only use Chrome minimally. If I do need to use Gmail or Google Calendar, I either launch a private window or use a Container Tab in Firefox.
I think it's not just the journalists though...pretty sure some of the concerns with FB were published years ago but fell on mostly deaf ears. But now you have a public that cares more due to some "big revelations" and also a press he'll-bent on furthering the anti-SV tracking narrative
Me too. Different VPN browsers, one for logged in items and the other for browsing or non-logged in work.
Original article is from 2016 - https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-droppe...