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> ... if it wanted to Made me smile. Google needs to track you, its their core business model. Defeat is not an option, all methods should be found and blocked

> ... if it wanted to Made me smile. Google needs to track you, its their core business model. Defeat is not an option, all methods should be found and blocked. Thankfully Chrome is not the only usable browser, and network requests are detectable.

stubish 8y ago
Google does not need to track anyone. Google needs to sell ads, and Google needs to be perceived as the best place to spend your advertising budged. What business case is there for Google to work hard at tracking people, defeating anti-tracking measures? There is a cost to doing that, and I don't see a financial incentive for doing it. There are certainly business cases for Google to not defeat anti-tracking measures, as collecting that sort of data is a liability. However, per previous lawsuits like the mapping cars sniffing WIFI data, perhaps they are still just trying to collect everything they can without thought to if it is a benefit, waste, or liability.
- auslander 8y ago
  Keyword is targeted ads, it revolutionised the market and made FB and Google rich. The only way to sell an ad placement to white males, with >100k income, in this zip code, with specific health problem is to track those people, and Google tracks them all. FB gets data from your posts and messages, Google gets it from your emails, files, searches, location. Both get data from your browsing history (Like buttons, G-Analytics scripts), as do all the rest of third party trackers (cookies).
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  - cromwellian 8y ago
    Google makes most of their money from AdWords which is keyword targeted advertising buy and large. People way overestimate the helpfulness of profile targeted advertising vs search term targeted ads.
    - auslander 8y ago
      Without real numbers, like AdWords vs Profile Ads, one has to rely on common sense, in my sense, profiling is a gold mine. Below is a random quote I Googled up :) In practice, this means that Google can now, if it wanted to, build up even richer profiles of named individuals’ online activity. It also means that the DoubleClick ads that follow people on the web could be personalized based on the keywords that individuals use in Gmail. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/21/how-to-disable-google-ad-tracking-gmail-youtube-browser-history https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/21/how-to-di... What about Adwords Customer Match, identity-based targeting ? (updated in 2018, by Erin Sagin is the Global SMB Solutions Go To Market Lead at Google) https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2015/11/02/adwords-customer-match-setup https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2015/11/02/adwords-custom...
- auslander 8y ago
  All of them use your IP address as major identifier (4). UnGoogling Guide, v0.1 :) 1. Switch everything to Apple, hardware company. iPhone, Mac OS 2. Use myname@icloud.com email, create few email aliases. Forward your gmail to it, and finally delete gmail accounts. 3. Don't use any of Googles software, like Chrome. Install adbocker extention/app and use Private Browsing windows by default 4. Buy a VPN subscription and set up your phone and Mac to always use it (on-demand).
  - auslander 8y ago
    (4) Gmail and Facebook will complain that you're logging in from 'unknown device', meaning not from IP they recorded on you. Set up MFA to get around it, like FreeOTP mobile app to generate codes.

stubish 8y ago

Google does not need to track anyone. Google needs to sell ads, and Google needs to be perceived as the best place to spend your advertising budged. What business case is there for Google to work hard at tracking people, defeating anti-tracking measures? There is a cost to doing that, and I don't see a financial incentive for doing it. There are certainly business cases for Google to not defeat anti-tracking measures, as collecting that sort of data is a liability. However, per previous lawsuits like the mapping cars sniffing WIFI data, perhaps they are still just trying to collect everything they can without thought to if it is a benefit, waste, or liability.

auslander 8y ago
Keyword is targeted ads, it revolutionised the market and made FB and Google rich. The only way to sell an ad placement to white males, with >100k income, in this zip code, with specific health problem is to track those people, and Google tracks them all. FB gets data from your posts and messages, Google gets it from your emails, files, searches, location. Both get data from your browsing history (Like buttons, G-Analytics scripts), as do all the rest of third party trackers (cookies).
- deleted 8y ago
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- cromwellian 8y ago
  Google makes most of their money from AdWords which is keyword targeted advertising buy and large. People way overestimate the helpfulness of profile targeted advertising vs search term targeted ads.
  - auslander 8y ago
    Without real numbers, like AdWords vs Profile Ads, one has to rely on common sense, in my sense, profiling is a gold mine. Below is a random quote I Googled up :) In practice, this means that Google can now, if it wanted to, build up even richer profiles of named individuals’ online activity. It also means that the DoubleClick ads that follow people on the web could be personalized based on the keywords that individuals use in Gmail. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/21/how-to-disable-google-ad-tracking-gmail-youtube-browser-history https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/21/how-to-di... What about Adwords Customer Match, identity-based targeting ? (updated in 2018, by Erin Sagin is the Global SMB Solutions Go To Market Lead at Google) https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2015/11/02/adwords-customer-match-setup https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2015/11/02/adwords-custom...
auslander 8y ago
All of them use your IP address as major identifier (4). UnGoogling Guide, v0.1 :) 1. Switch everything to Apple, hardware company. iPhone, Mac OS 2. Use myname@icloud.com email, create few email aliases. Forward your gmail to it, and finally delete gmail accounts. 3. Don't use any of Googles software, like Chrome. Install adbocker extention/app and use Private Browsing windows by default 4. Buy a VPN subscription and set up your phone and Mac to always use it (on-demand).
- auslander 8y ago
  (4) Gmail and Facebook will complain that you're logging in from 'unknown device', meaning not from IP they recorded on you. Set up MFA to get around it, like FreeOTP mobile app to generate codes.