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Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking (2016)
- llampx 8y agoI'm surprised that this change did not receive much publicity when it was rolled out. Could it be that journalists did not look into what the changes entailed, or should I put a tinfoil hat on? It seems a bit... convenient that we are only now getting to know this when its already been active for many months. Personally I never browse logged-in to Google or Facebook, and only use Chrome minimally. If I do need to use Gmail or Google Calendar, I either launch a private window or use a Container Tab in Firefox.
- projectramo 8y agoMe too. Different VPN browsers, one for logged in items and the other for browsing or non-logged in work.
- xianb 8y agoI think it's not just the journalists though...pretty sure some of the concerns with FB were published years ago but fell on mostly deaf ears. But now you have a public that cares more due to some "big revelations" and also a press he'll-bent on furthering the anti-SV tracking narrative
- glenrivard 8y agoThis is from three years ago. Why being posted now?
- gvb 8y ago(2016) - note the first line: This article was originally published by ProPublica on October 21st, 2016.
- dang 8y agoIt also had a big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19076528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19076528. I wonder why it keeps getting reposted?
- jk47101 8y agoOriginal article is from 2016 - https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-droppe...