Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking (2016)

Re:Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable... by mulmen on Monday February 04, 2019 @01:15PM (#19078919)

It still blows my mind that any technologically literate person would use Chrome as their primary browser in 2019. Or 2018, or really ever.

The incentives for Google are perverse, this is really simple reasoning.

Google will continue their MS-esque Embrace-Extend-Extinguish march until only Chrome is left. That people who should know better willingly enable this disaster terrifies me.

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Re:Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable... by CaptainZapp on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:07AM (#19083876)

After that last little cookie shitty in combination with their auto-sign in feature, which Google pulled off recently I won't touch Chrome with a 10foot pole and will not let it near any computer, which I control.

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Re:Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable... by distant_hat on Monday February 04, 2019 @02:14PM (#19079624)

My company is a Google shop, we use Google docs for collaboration, Gmail, and Google Calendar, and Google Hangouts, and Meet and all that. All of this works best in Chrome. On Safari you get huge RAM bloat necessitating killing the browser every few days, same with Firefox, some things like video meets don't work at all.

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Re:Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable... by mulmen on Monday February 04, 2019 @02:21PM (#19079703)

Sounds exactly like IE6 in “Microsoft shops”.

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Re:Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable... by abc_lisper on Monday February 04, 2019 @03:59PM (#19080573)

Actually, that is horrifying. That their webapps are usable only through their browser. Google, I guess, achieved what Microsoft couldn't

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