User tracking only exists because it generates money. We should ban the entire practice. No more targeted ads (with very little exceptions).
how you can ban the practice??? in what way ?
Google's widespread tracking across the web
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Re: Google's widespread tracking across the web
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
You ban it by making it illegal.
how can you make it illegal?? >make a new law >they just move elsewhere how??? tell me
You just tell Congress that the data brokers have all the rights to sell our data to Chinese data brokers. Maybe that will change their mind.
Re: Google's widespread tracking across the web
#53In the case of this particular website, perhaps Google tracks you less, but you get tracked by ` https://test-v1.adriaan.com ` — whatever that means. 9: https://test-v1.adriaan.com/script-v1.js " async> https://test-v1.adriaan.com/simple.gif?type=event&hostname=t... Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0&version=test-2025-04-22-v2&event=onload&path=/blog/google-is-tracking-you-even-when-you-use-duck-duck-go&referrer=&session_i…
Ha, nice find! I'm the Adriaan in adriaan.com. I'm testing some new script features that might improve deliverability. It's not sending any personal data. I use another domain to have the least effect of ad-blockers.
Re: Google's widespread tracking across the web
#54In the case of this particular website, perhaps Google tracks you less, but you get tracked by ` https://test-v1.adriaan.com ` — whatever that means. 9: https://test-v1.adriaan.com/script-v1.js " async> https://test-v1.adriaan.com/simple.gif?type=event&hostname=t... Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0&version=test-2025-04-22-v2&event=onload&path=/blog/google-is-tracking-you-even-when-you-use-duck-duck-go&referrer=&session_i…
Ha, nice find! I'm the Adriaan in adriaan.com. I'm testing some new script features that might improve deliverability. It's not sending any personal data. I use another domain to have the least effect of ad-blockers.
Nice to meet you, Adriaan.
This is slightly incorrect. By sending a request from your business website (SimpleAnalytics) to your personal domain (Adriaan), you actually transfer personal data. In this case, it’s the IP address, which according to GDPR is considered PII.
Taking into account the scope of privacy terms provided on your business website, it doesn’t include data sharing with your personal entity through your website. So this is basically illegal, unless adriaan[.]com belongs and operated by SimpleAnalytics company.
Re: Google's widespread tracking across the web
#55This is an obvious, thinly-veiled advertisement for a company's services. It's widely known that ad companies track you everywhere by many mechanisms. This is why we use ad blockers of all sorts. This has nothing to do with DuckDuckGo, it's merely used as a vehicle to get clicks.
Re: Google's widespread tracking across the web
#56A lot of browser's have tracking blocked and there will be a icon in the top bar which will show this.
And many vpns also offer an option to block trackers and ads before they get to you.
Re: Google's widespread tracking across the web
#57User tracking only exists because it generates money. We should ban the entire practice. No more targeted ads (with very little exceptions).
Then something else will replace it. To make the same amount of money.
Re: Google's widespread tracking across the web
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
To me just posting this long list is spreading FUD. It mixes voluntary user actions, like submitting forms and “query parameters”, with things like “WebGL fingerprint” which we agree is evil sneaky fingerprinting. I agree tracking is a serious problem, but this list isn’t contributing to any discussion.
What I would like is effective solutions against most fingerprinting.
Tails and Qube OS, for example
Re: Google's widespread tracking across the web
#59A lot of browser's have tracking blocked and there will be a icon in the top bar which will show this. And many vpns also offer an option to block trackers and ads before they get to you.
VPN providers can't meaningfully block trackers. If they say they do, they have to be intercepting SSL which requires extra work (must install their generated CA on all clients) and you are literally handing over all data to the VPN provider, more so than without of course, as they'd be able to decrypt HTTPS payloads.
Re: Google's widespread tracking across the web
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
You ban it by making it illegal.
yeah.. with any frontier or frontier tech it's the same story.. the folks that made it to the frontier.. they make all the calls.. they establish all the rules.. they do all the abusive things they want cus... we plebs, who buy their frontier stuff?, just don't know any better.. and then one day, after living in the frontier/futureland sufficiently, it clicks, we recognize we are being had.. then we organize, we get…
In the US maybe, in the EU it's a different story.