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I’m curious about how they make use of their knowledge of multiple accounts. In Chrome and the Gmail app they definitely understand that these x accounts belong

I’m curious about how they make use of their knowledge of multiple accounts. In Chrome and the Gmail app they definitely understand that these x accounts belong to the same person, and I imagine there’s some kind of Uber-profile on me. I keep waiting for the day I’m filling out one of their captchas and after a couple failed attempts it’ll say, “c’mon, (my actual name), you know what a traffic light looks like”.

dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago
> I’m curious about how they make use of their knowledge of multiple accounts. In Chrome and the Gmail app they definitely understand that these x accounts belong to the same person, and I imagine there’s some kind of Uber-profile on me. At the beginning they actively discouraged these, but in the end they gave up and make multiple personal profiles supported. Of course the have our uber-profile, after all, I situations where multiple Gmail accounts in one phone are shared by different people must be extremely rare. So I guess they embraced it and try to learn more about the user by analyzing how these different accounts are used.
- shadowgovt 7y ago
  Whether or not they use it for aggregate tracking, it's necessary for fraud detection. Creating a thousand ghost accounts to multiply the force of an attack via (or upon) Google services is "black hat 101."