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And also makes it harder for any alternative - you can’t use two different systems to proxy the same content at the same time, and you can’t expect one company
by olliej 5y ago
And also makes it harder for any alternative - you can’t use two different systems to proxy the same content at the same time, and you can’t expect one company to not “protect user privacy” by filtering competitors.
Honestly the only reason this is even an option for google is because a bunch of web admins said “I want to know who is browsing my site, and who cares if that lets google spy on every person who uses my site”, and now they’re just offering this “improvement” to spying.
- Animats 5y agoThis was modded down, but commented on favorably. Am I wrong about this giving Google a backdoor into every web site that uses it?
- olliej 5y agoIt’s just another mechanism to maintain their existing spyware systems. What google absolutely depends on is having as much of the web as possible including their code. Essentially: if every website includes some amount of their code it becomes increasingly difficult to block every tentacle. Presumably the goal is that it doesn’t matter if 90% of their crap is blocked by browsers: as long as a single tentacle leaks enough info on any given page they can track you. How true this is in the face of privacy preserving vpns like Apple’s private relay I don’t know.
- charcircuit 5y agoYes, you misunderstand it. Google isn't getting any more information / power than they previously did. What server side tagging does it separates the creation of tags outside of a user's browsers and into a server that is a part of your infrastructure. You can host this tagging server on Google Cloud, but you can also self host it if you choose to. To restate what happens, a website's users send events to a first party tagging server and then that tagging server can communicate with 3rd parties.