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You don't need to use their services to be tracked by them. Especially Google tracks people all over the internet, whether those people want to use their servic
by Sylos 10y ago
You don't need to use their services to be tracked by them. Especially Google tracks people all over the internet, whether those people want to use their services or not.
I've heard estimates that Google Analytics is deployed on about 70% of webpages. And their doubleclick-ads, Google+-buttons, JavaScript-APIs, CAPTCHAs, Custom Search Engines etc. are all over the web as well, and you'll have a hard time finding a webpage which does not use a Google service without asking you about it.
- _Understated_ 10y agoI used to agree with this but it is easier than ever before to seriously reduce your footprint on the web: I use a VPN, UBlock Origin and NoScript and although it's not perfect it stops all third parties tracking me with their stuff. Dead. It can be tedious at times, like hitting a link on HN to a site that requires JS... do I let them in or not? But it can be done. I don't know what size my footprint is online but I reckon it's tiny compared to, say, my mums. The thing that worries me is when someone puts everything together, i.e. Facebook data, Google data, Twitter data, government sites data etc... that's worrying.