Chromium too?
Doesn't look like it from my testing of version 81.0.4036.0. But in normal Chrome I do see it.
Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
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Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#12Google consumer software is almost universally an active full frontal attack on you. Stop using it.
This sounded harder to do than it was in my experience. I figured the alternatives to their products would be less polished. But I switched to Firefox and honestly prefer it to Chrome. (They allow extensions on Android, meaning adblock, which is a game changer for me.) DDG for search is great. Protonmail for email is fine, etc. There isn't much in the Google ecosystem that I miss tbh.
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#13To give them some credit: it's not sent when in incognito mode.
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#14Not endorsing this, but according to https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html#variat... > We want to build features that users want, so a subset of users may get a sneak peek at new functionality being tested before it’s launched to the world at large. A list of field trials that are currently active on your installation of Chrome will be included in all requests sent to Google. This Chrome-Variations he…
They key in the wording is:
"If usage statistics and crash reports are disabled, this number is chosen between 0 and 7999 (13 bits of entropy)."
"If, statistics are disabled."
In chrome://version you can see the active variations. It seems to be pretty big numbers to be significant, and so far haven't observed duplicates.
Since this header is generated server-side, you have only to believe I guess ? Plus why Doubleclick would need it :)
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#15If you haven't used Firefox in a while you should really give it another chance. It has vastly improved in terms of CPU and battery usage. It also has a lot of great privacy-enhancing features like tracking protection enabled by default and extensions like Facebook Container make it trivial to prevent tracking even further.
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#16Not endorsing this, but according to https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html#variat... > We want to build features that users want, so a subset of users may get a sneak peek at new functionality being tested before it’s launched to the world at large. A list of field trials that are currently active on your installation of Chrome will be included in all requests sent to Google. This Chrome-Variations he…
Is there a reason for only sending this header to Google web properties and not all domains?
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#17Just ask: why does an advertising company make a browser?
Not sure why this is being downvoted. It hits the nail on the head. If you are concerned about privacy around advertising then using a browser from the biggest online ad company is short sighted.
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#18"Backdoor" this, "backdoor" that. Proprietary software company releases proprietary software that allows them to spy on you, how shocking.
In which they sacrifice privacy to allow their ad network to target you better. https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/building-a-more-priv...
In which they explicitly track you more under the guise of protecting your privacy. https://github.com/jkarlin/floc
For every single claim Google makes about being pro-privacy, their definition of privacy ("data shared between you and Google and no one more") is implicit.
It's a surveillance company that makes proprietary software to sell you ads. As soon as you get that into your head, you'll be much less shocked.
"We personally get to track you" is not a unique stance, and it's far from a backdoor. It's just another vile move from a surveillance company that's pretty explicit that that's their goal.
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#19Not endorsing this, but according to https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html#variat... > We want to build features that users want, so a subset of users may get a sneak peek at new functionality being tested before it’s launched to the world at large. A list of field trials that are currently active on your installation of Chrome will be included in all requests sent to Google. This Chrome-Variations he…
How many people will actually run chrome with a cli flag? It would be pretty impressive if every single person reading this thread did, but it probably won't even be that. Most people don't even touch their settings.
13 bits of entropy is far from a uuid (but to get it to that you need to disable some more settings, which again very few people do), but it's still plenty good enough to disambiguate individuals over time.
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#20You should also donate to Mozilla because it’s an insanely good piece o software for the price!