- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
cross-posted from: https://fed.dyne.org/post/343234
Google Starts Fingerprint-Tracking All Your Devices In 8 Weeks
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TL;DR - Google makes (arguably insane) claim that it previously acted responsibly with regards to fingerprinting, and says they will begin acting irresponsibility with fingerprinting in February.
Practical take-aways you probably already knew:
- Today’s Google may do or say anything to make an extra nickel.
- Today’s Google, while it employs some excellent privacy minded engineers, has not demonstrated an organizational commitment to user privacy.
- It is probably wise to assume that the next serious data breach at Google will end marriages, get politicians arrested, get famous people canceled, fuel successful scammers, and have every other privacy impact you can imagine. We know the Google data pool is massive, and we have reason to believe it is incredibly personal. I’m aware that Google has anonymozation solutions in play, and I do not believe those solutions will be effective in a breach scenario.
- I believe that the average person will likely be better off ten years from now if they interact less with Google services.
Like Google maps:
we anonymize your data before selling it. So it leaves your address every morning and goes to your office every morning but it’s completely anonymous.
Exactly. I don’t think I’m alone in feeling that Google’s clever privacy engineering isn’t enough to keep any of us safe.
Google’s expectation that we be okay with these practices feels like corporate gaslighting, to me.
Thanks! The article was a bit of a tough read for me. Lol
Ditto!
You should know when and how you are being tracked, and you should have an easy-button to say thanks, but no thanks.
Opt-out!? That’s not even close to being a good solution.
Your data should not be collected, and you should not be tracked, UNLESS you agree yo it, ie opt-in, AND data collection is proportional/appropriate for the stated goal.
That’s the spirit of GDPR.
The worse, it does not only using Google Apps or Services, but more than the half of existing webpages use one or another Google API (at least googleanalytigs and google-tagmanager.which log and spy the visitors and users.
Hard, very hard to avoid it, Googles eyes are everywhere, even in FOSS.
You can pretty much block those domains in noscript without breaking the Website
Yes, you can easily block the tracking crap being downloaded to your HD and added to your browser, almost everyone do it, but you can’t blck the logging of websites which use the Google (mostly) and other APIs. They store your PC and browser data in their server, which you can’t access. The only possibility is using a VPN and other which spoof or fake your data, so that is don’t have a real value. To use a mail which permits to mask your real mail direction, because your mail is an unique identifier which can be tracked all over the web. Using Image share which delete the EXIF data (vgy.me eg., Read always PP to see with which companies are shared your data, and some protections more to patch the worst privacy holes, but forget 100% privacy in the moment you goes online, it’s only a myth to calm the people which intent to stay private with their shitty PC against the tech of the big ones.
I didn’t see anything about the implications of this on the EU and GDPR?
What exactly is the change being made? I don’t see that the article actually explains it anywhere.
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*laughs in LineageOS
*laughs in CalyxOS
Time to root and degoogle for the unfortunate.
Glad I don’t use any Google services and no apps on graphene OS then for my main computers I run Fedora silverblue with no Google once again.
Yes but do you use PiHole and a solid VPN? Do you spoof your browser’s useragent? Even then, some would argue that you are not safe enough from Google’s prying eyes.
Map car retreats around corner
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What’s a Chrome?
Google it
