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Perhaps in the sense that they have a session cookie that tracks impressions of sites which reference them on the web, and that information they have that their
by zaroth 7y ago
Perhaps in the sense that they have a session cookie that tracks impressions of sites which reference them on the web, and that information they have that their users uploaded that happen to also reference you.
But not anything like in the sense of a logged in user and the level of knowledge they have about actual users.
Facebook knows a lot less about non-registered users than Google does, for instance.
And in the sense of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which is what this fine is about, my understanding is that non-users were entirely unaffected.
- skybrian 7y agoWhy do you think Google knows more than Facebook?
- megous 7y agoSearch queries reveal a lot.
- djakjxnanjak 7y agoDo we consider people making search queries on Google to be non-users?
- zaroth 7y agoI think yes if you’re not logged in. But there’s plenty of ways Google is tracking you, and serving ads to you, away from Google.com too.
- skybrian 7y agoI haven't kept up, but as of 12 years ago they were anonymizing search logs for users that aren't logged in: https://www.google.com/amp/s/searchengineland.com/google-anonymizing-search-records-to-protect-privacy-10736/amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/searchengineland.com/google-ano...