Google starts tracking all your devices in 8 weeks
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#2> Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices in 8 Weeks
Those "journalists" were living in a bubble ? Google (and Facebook, and Apple, and Microfost) have been tracking our devices for years.
Re: Google starts tracking all your devices in 8 weeks
#3This article doesn’t explain what change Google is supposed to be making and they don’t link to anything that explains it either. (There is a link to what seems to be to a policy change for the ads platform.) Does anyone know what they’re talking about?
Re: Google starts tracking all your devices in 8 weeks
#4> Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices in 8 Weeks Those "journalists" were living in a bubble ? Google (and Facebook, and Apple, and Microfost) have been tracking our devices for years.
The article is about Google's new focus on tracking users via device fingerprint, instead of (primarily) via cookies.
Re: Google starts tracking all your devices in 8 weeks
#5> Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices in 8 Weeks Those "journalists" were living in a bubble ? Google (and Facebook, and Apple, and Microfost) have been tracking our devices for years.
The article is about Google's new focus on tracking users via device fingerprint, instead of (primarily) via cookies.
Which is, depending on your perspective, either terrifying or just stupid.
Right now anti-fingerprinting security is not very high on anyone's minds, but remember that your digital fingerprints follow you EVERYWHERE. You can't turn them off or disable them on your side like cookies.
It's sort of like the wholesale elimination of privacy as a concept, you might say.
But hence the stupidity! It's too bold a move not to elicit a reaction from developers and users (who have the power to discover just how many bits of information they are leaking about themselves using tools like https://pbtest.org/).
So on one hand I can have websites that offer richer functionality by being aware of my time zone and locally installed fonts, or on the other hand I can have privacy. Hmm, which is worth more?
Re: Google starts tracking all your devices in 8 weeks
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article is about Google's new focus on tracking users via device fingerprint, instead of (primarily) via cookies.
Which is, depending on your perspective, either terrifying or just stupid. Right now anti-fingerprinting security is not very high on anyone's minds, but remember that your digital fingerprints follow you EVERYWHERE. You can't turn them off or disable them on your side like cookies. It's sort of like the wholesale elimination of privacy as a concept, you might say. But hence the stupidity! It's too bold a move not to…
It's unfortunate that the pbtest.org tool links out to a service with an expired cert.
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#7So, if I use a device that doesn’t support tracking, and they track it anyway, how do they get it to present the “do not sell my personal information” button?
Also, are there any decent plugins that block all of google instead of just the ads? I imagine they’d need to MITM static font assets, etc.
I also wonder if / when this means Google will start fingerprinting and tracking tenants’ customers on GCP.
Re: Google starts tracking all your devices in 8 weeks
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is, depending on your perspective, either terrifying or just stupid. Right now anti-fingerprinting security is not very high on anyone's minds, but remember that your digital fingerprints follow you EVERYWHERE. You can't turn them off or disable them on your side like cookies. It's sort of like the wholesale elimination of privacy as a concept, you might say. But hence the stupidity! It's too bold a move not to…
It's unfortunate that the pbtest.org tool links out to a service with an expired cert.
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Re: Google starts tracking all your devices in 8 weeks
#9This article doesn’t explain what change Google is supposed to be making and they don’t link to anything that explains it either. (There is a link to what seems to be to a policy change for the ads platform.) Does anyone know what they’re talking about?
Read it more carefully (it is easy to miss). They’re going to start using and allowing third party device fingerprinting throughout their ad ecosystem.
This is obviously illegal in Europe, the UK and California (no consent), and an unnnamed regulator warns that it intends to take action.
Re: Google starts tracking all your devices in 8 weeks
#10So, if I use a device that doesn’t support tracking, and they track it anyway, how do they get it to present the “do not sell my personal information” button? Also, are there any decent plugins that block all of google instead of just the ads? I imagine they’d need to MITM static font assets, etc. I also wonder if / when this means Google will start fingerprinting and tracking tenants’ customers on GCP.
Personally, I went the nuclear route with a Pihole. My devices can’t talk to Google.