Posted on 01/23/2025 5:04:38 PM PST by Openurmind
Google has announced a change to its advertising policies that will allow advertisers to use digital fingerprinting starting February 16, 2025.
Why it is important: digital fingerprinting uses signals, like the IP address, location, language, used software, or operating system, to identify devices and users on the Internet.
Numerous digital fingerprinting techniques exist, some even capable of cross-browser fingerprinting.
(Excerpt) Read more at ghacks.net ...
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
And this is not just Google search engine. It is also every website on the internet that uses Google 3rd party API services...
Amazing, thanks!
My privilege, folks need to know these things... :)
VPN
“VPN”
I wish it were that simple. While a VPN is end to end tunneling so no one can see the content going through, and gives you a proxy server address, you are still connecting to their scripts at the target site which can get the other data.
They just about got us completely cornered.
Brave browser uses a randomized fingerprint by default ;)
“Brave browser uses a randomized fingerprint by default ;)”
Yep, that helps with fingerprinting for sure. But what this fails to mention is that Google is accessing your camera and microphone too. I found this out years ago...
Deep inside my Samsung google phone I found the toggle that allows Google every right you have ever granted to any app downloaded from the Android Store. To get rid of that, you have to decline it individually on each app. Took me half an hour to do that.
Yep, I had to do the same thing!
Google?
I am degoogled too. But it is hard because of all the websites that use Google services.
They are insidiously intertwined with so much it’s disgusting. Or is it incestually?
The kind of ads I see on Google and YouTube target me in a way that makes me wonder how they got that information. I’m always thinking of how Google is going to use any search I make so I self censor a lot.
This PC HAS no camera or mic ;^)
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