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Why is a study required to know this? Google, surely, should make this known in their privacy policy?
by maxehmookau 8y ago
Why is a study required to know this? Google, surely, should make this known in their privacy policy?
- wmeredith 8y agoThey literally announced it on their blog in 2009. https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/personalized-search-for-everyone.html https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/personalized-search-... I'm a DDG fan, but they doth protest too much sometimes.
- Bartweiss 8y agoThat 2009 announcement makes several very specific promises which conflict with these results. It promised signed-out customization based on prior search history (which Google has confirmed Incognito doesn't use), with a notification and option to disable that customization. This result finds substantial variance with no notification and no toggle, which extends almost unchanged into Incognito. I think Occam's Razor says this is about localization and device type than fingerprinting, but it's definitely not just the thing they announced in 2009.