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Where I live (Denmark), these days nteraction with public administration mainly happens through web interfaces, like it or not. And believe me, when I log into
by interfixus 8y ago
Where I live (Denmark), these days nteraction with public administration mainly happens through web interfaces, like it or not.
And believe me, when I log into some state service, Google follows. Because even in what is supposedly my private business, pages are infested with links to analytics, fonts, tag managers, and assorted other Mountain View skullduggery.
In my daily life, I have uMatrix, cookie killers, and other defenses keeping me reasonable free of all that nonsense. But the mandatory, enforced central logon ("NemID") - which I must use for all public logging in as well as for my bank and similar stuff - is such an unholy clusterfuck of malice and incompetence that I long since gave up the fight and assigned it its very own, completely unfiltered Firefox profile, simply in order to at least sometimes get things done.
So yes, Google knows exactly where I'm going page for page, not only if I visit, say, the national police website, but if I am deep in filling out forms for the tax authority, consulting with health services, using my web bank, answering a court summons, whatever.
I'm fairly certain much of it is actually illegal. But any complaint goes up against a massive wall of ignorance and incomprehension, often a far greater challenge than an expert reply.