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>No it's not. They're likely going to track IP addresses and make assumptions there. So? Unless Google is getting direct data from ISPs and requesting personal
by coderdude 16y ago
>No it's not. They're likely going to track IP addresses and make assumptions there.
So? Unless Google is getting direct data from ISPs and requesting personal information about your identity from them then your IP address is just as useless to them as it is to me for linking your tastes to your human identity. Browser fingerprinting, in the Panopticlick sense, is just as useless to that end. At Google's scale the Panopticlick method doesn't even work because of how many people they come across. Once the number of browsers that match your "fingerprint" is > 1 it becomes useless to them.
>I'm sorry, but people like you are way too complacent.
I'm not complacent, I just know what I'm talking about. Take the tin-foil hat off.
>People like us know a little history. Things can get nasty.
You are so full yourself. You have no idea what you're talking about.
- andrewcooke 16y agoMaybe so. If you're right, that will be great. If I'm right, well, I hope I'll be OK. You'll be fucked, but who cares about that? Not me.
- benologist 16y agohttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304410504575560243259416072.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230441050457556...
- coderdude 16y agoYou could at least add some commentary to your comment. I've read that article and I don't see the implications to our discussion here. They linked together all the information that women (and everyone else) put out there for others to scrape. That is not the same as the keyword/referrers/logged into Google argument that we are having.
- benologist 16y agoJust thought I'd show you how identifiable you really are, without your knowledge or consent or even knowing who the companies tracking you are. And it's exactly the same as what we're discussing - Rapleaf was even one of the companies I specifically mentioned earlier. These companies don't look at any single piece of data individually, they collate as much as they can and the result is ... what I linked to. Referrers and search terms are just two easily ended streams of data.
- coderdude 16y agoYes, you are correct. It is very easy to link all this data together to create a profile about a person. They probably have more data about each of us than any of us realizes. I think even I might be surprised by how much a company like Rapleaf has put together about me.
- joh6nn 16y agoyou guys have officially crossed the threshold from disagreeing to flaming-without-purpose. dial it back a bit, or take it outside.
- coderdude 16y agoWell, it may be a little heated but aside from that "you'll be fucked, who cares" comment I don't think we're going to far. I doubt anyone here has had their feelings hurt.