Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking (2016)

Re:Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable... by llampx on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @08:17AM (#19084979)

I'm surprised that this change did not receive much publicity when it was rolled out. Could it be that journalists did not look into what the changes entailed, or should I put a tinfoil hat on? It seems a bit... convenient that we are only now getting to know this when its already been active for many months.

Personally I never browse logged-in to Google or Facebook, and only use Chrome minimally. If I do need to use Gmail or Google Calendar, I either launch a private window or use a Container Tab in Firefox.

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Re:Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable... by xianb on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @08:41AM (#19085140)

I think it's not just the journalists though...pretty sure some of the concerns with FB were published years ago but fell on mostly deaf ears. But now you have a public that cares more due to some "big revelations" and also a press he'll-bent on furthering the anti-SV tracking narrative

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Re:Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable... by projectramo on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @08:36AM (#19085102)

Me too. Different VPN browsers, one for logged in items and the other for browsing or non-logged in work.

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