Digital fingerprinting is suddenly back and it will be everywhere—here's what you need to know.
  • @Hirom@beehaw.org
    45•5 months ago

    You should know when and how you are being tracked, and you should have an easy-button to say thanks, but no thanks.

    Opt-out!? That’s not even close to being a good solution.

    Your data should not be collected, and you should not be tracked, UNLESS you agree yo it, ie opt-in, AND data collection is proportional/appropriate for the stated goal.

    That’s the spirit of GDPR.

  • @Zerush@lemmy.ml
    23•5 months ago

    The worse, it does not only using Google Apps or Services, but more than the half of existing webpages use one or another Google API (at least googleanalytigs and google-tagmanager.which log and spy the visitors and users.

    Hard, very hard to avoid it, Googles eyes are everywhere, even in FOSS.

    • Luffy
      2•5 months ago

      You can pretty much block those domains in noscript without breaking the Website

      • @Zerush@lemmy.ml
        6•5 months ago

        Yes, you can easily block the tracking crap being downloaded to your HD and added to your browser, almost everyone do it, but you can’t blck the logging of websites which use the Google (mostly) and other APIs. They store your PC and browser data in their server, which you can’t access. The only possibility is using a VPN and other which spoof or fake your data, so that is don’t have a real value. To use a mail which permits to mask your real mail direction, because your mail is an unique identifier which can be tracked all over the web. Using Image share which delete the EXIF data (vgy.me eg., Read always PP to see with which companies are shared your data, and some protections more to patch the worst privacy holes, but forget 100% privacy in the moment you goes online, it’s only a myth to calm the people which intent to stay private with their shitty PC against the tech of the big ones.

  • @catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    22•5 months ago

    What exactly is the change being made? I don’t see that the article actually explains it anywhere.

    • @BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
      8•5 months ago

      They are updating their Platforms program policies

      You can read the current version, archived here

      And here’s the proposed changes

      I haven’t read it all, but some glaring changes stand out in regards to fingerprinting (no longer prohibited) and device unique identifiers (no longer prohibited from gathering). Basically, Google wants to become even more lax with how users are tracked by their advertising partners

  • Matt
    10•5 months ago

    Time to root and degoogle for the unfortunate.