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> There are a lot of dark patterns Google could use to track you if it wanted to Could you elaborate here? I'm primarily only aware of cookies and javascript/p
by rayvy 8y ago
> There are a lot of dark patterns Google could use to track you if it wanted to
Could you elaborate here? I'm primarily only aware of cookies and javascript/pixels, but I'm sure there are much more elaborate ways.
- chrismorgan 8y agoHere’s one way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag#Tracking_using_ETags https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag#Tracking_using_ETags
- auslander 8y agoblog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/31/preventing-data-leaks-by-stripping-path-information-in-http-referrers/
- asdfasgasdgasdg 8y agoThere are a variety of them. Cookies are obvious, but even if you block those, there are a variety of techniques to enable server-side super cookies, where you are taking a fingerprint of the browser and storing the information on the server (e.g. https://amiunique.org/fp https://amiunique.org/fp). And that's not even counting stuff you can do with no cooperation from the user-agent at all. You can do a lot of deanonymization using IP blocks, time of day, and behavior analysis. I'm not an expert. There's a lot of stuff here that you can read about if you dig in to it. Personally, I don't believe that Google is doing much if any of this stuff, because I think they rightly believe that if it were discovered that they are, it would go poorly for them in the public sphere.